Labour campaigners celebrated as the party gained majority control of Medway Council in Kent for the first time in Thursday’s (4 May) local elections.<br /><br />The party won 33 seats as the Conservatives gained 22 alongside four independents.<br /><br />Labour’s Kent victory prompted Sir Keir Starmer to declare that the party was “on course for a majority at the next general election.”<br /><br />“We’ve won the trust and confidence of voters and now we can go on and change our country.”
