Voting has ended in the first set of UK elections since 2019. Last time people went to the polls the Conservatives had no parliamentary majority, Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party and health officials in Wuhan were registering a cluster of serious pneumonia cases apparently associated with a novel form of coronavirus. A lot has happened since then, and this was voters’ first opportunity to pass a verdict on Boris Johnson’s pandemic government and Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership. In Scotland, the Holyrood elections have been billed as the most constitutionally significant since 1999 as they could pave the way for a second independence referendum. SponsoredThe weekend is likely to be dominated with the political fallout as the results drip through today and

Source: The Times May 06, 2021 16:01 UTC