During the election night coverage Labour and a number of political commentators remarked that the Conservatives didn't have a single councillor on Manchester council.
Well as of last night Labour find themselves in a position where they have no councillors in 89 councils. These are not confined to the South East either, they are missing in councils from Cumbria to Cornwall including some in North Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Devon, Dorset, Warwickshire, Worcetershire and Wiltshire.
So, how about a little bit of balance in the reporting next time?
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I think what the commentators tended to say was that there continued to be no Conservative Councillors on Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle Council. I also heard references to there only being one Conservative Councillor on Sheffield Council.
I don't think drawing attention to these facts is any evidence of bias. These are afterall very large councils, e.g. according to the 2001 Census the population of Manchester was 392,819 people. The Liverpool population was 439, 473 people and Newcastle's population was 226,600. Sheffield also has a large population.
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