Shadow Treasury Minister Richard Fuller admitted the Conservatives faced a “very difficult night” after losing nearly 700 seats and all 16 councils they were defending. He said Reform UK had done well, partly due to public disillusionment with Labour, but warned the party would now need to prove itself beyond slogans. Fuller said the Tories must rebuild trust ahead of future elections. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think we we think reform done very well in these elections we knew these
00:03were going to be difficult elections for us we were coming off a major high it's
00:07just one year after we got a terrible drubbing in the general election perhaps
00:11we underestimated what a mess the new Labour government would make how
00:14quickly it would lose the support of the public and that's reinforced the surge
00:18towards reform reform now have the chance at a local level not to talk
00:22about slogans but to actually try and work out what their policies are and
00:26they'll find perhaps that is harder going the mere slogans that they put out so
00:31far it was a very very disappointing night for us across the country and
00:34looking for small shards of light is very very difficult I'm perhaps because I
00:39live in Bedfordshire I focus on Cambridge of course we gained the mayoralty off
00:42Paul Brissett so he worked so so hard to make that success happen but across the
00:47country we've lost very good councillors leaders in many councils lost their seats
00:51as well it was a very difficult night for us and that's the message for that is
00:55the Conservative Party still has work to do to rebuild the trust of the British
00:59public as we gear up for future elections