It does look like a pattern is emerging. It has been a lot easier for labour to make gains in areas where Brexit wasn't a problem for them.

It's a difficult one because ordinarily you wouldn't want to show your hand this far from a GE but these locals, more than any, have been undertaken on a national basis with Boris being the main issue.

This is probably typical of starmer, a slow creep towards some small small level of dominance but he is never going to inspire massive headline gains.

It does feel like the macro environment is going to play out in favour of labour though, as it did for the tories in 2008-2010. Maybe a similar reaction from the electorate to that time period, not enough fully trust the opposition for a landslide but enough to form a coalition.