Labour 'in line to win back Camden Council'
Friday May 7, 2010
By RICHARD OSLEY
CAMDEN'S Labour Party are reportedly on course to win back the Town Hall, just four years after they lost control to a Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition.
It follows two stunning parliamentary wins by Frank Dobson and Glenda Jackson at the General Election this morning, just as the Lib Dems and the Tories felt they were in with a shot of expanding their power base in the borough.
In one ward, a Conservative councillor has already conceded defeat even before the results have been read out, handing an exit statement to the New Journal.
The first official reports are due to start being announced within the next half an hour. Mr Dobson's added 10,000 votes to his score in Holborn and St Pancras and the suggestion is that a higher turnout has transferred to Labour's council campaign, paving the way for gains in a series of wards that the Lib Dems and Conservatives took last time.