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Labour Party on the rise in the U.K. Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results May 3, further cementing expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K. general election that will take place in the coming months. Labour won control of councils in England it hasn’t held for decades and was successful in a special by-election for Parliament. The results overall make for grim reading for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. If they are repeated in the general election, it would lead to one of the Conservatives’ biggest-ever defeats.