Labour's deputy campaign co-ordinator, Ellie Reeves, has said there is 'chaos and infighting' within the Conservative Party ahead of the local elections this week. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We'll be looking at that sort of national vote share but also making gains in those marginal seats
00:04 that we would need to win at a general election in order to form a government.
00:08 But we're not taking anything for granted.
00:10 And actually if you look at what's happened in previous local elections
00:16 that take place just before a general election, normally the government makes gains.
00:21 That happened in '97, in 2010, in 1979.
00:27 So if the government fails to make gains, it actually suggests they're in a worse state than they were under Major in '97.
00:33 We hear about plots all the time in the Conservative Party.
00:37 A new one has surfaced today.
00:40 There's chaos.
00:41 No one elected Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.
00:45 And there's so much infighting in the Conservative Party that people are paying the cost of that chaos.
00:52 They're more interested in fighting amongst themselves than governing for the good of the country.