British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will not step down after his Labour Party got pummeled in the country’s local elections held Thursday. The Labour Party lost more than 200 seats in areas that the party previously dominated, with many of those seats going to the right-wing populist Reform Party.
Anand Menon, a professor at Kings College London and director of the think tank UK In A Changing Europe, joins host Peter O’Dowd to discuss what these elections mean for the UK, Europe and the world.
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