MAY DAY FOR VOTERS

JEREMY Corbyn should beware history repeating itself after this Thursday’s council elections in many of England’s cities and larger towns.

I’ve the grey hair to prove I was around in 1990 when Tories spun defeat into victory by screaming they held their Wandsworth and Westminster strongholds in London.

We’re in weird politics when Labour strategy chief Andrew Gwynne belatedly talks down inflated expectations while grim Cons are to be cheerier on Friday no matter how badly they do. Labour won 43% of the votes and the Cons 30% in the same council contests in 2014, while at last year’s General Election it was 54-33 for Corbyn in the same areas. London’s Kensington and Chelsea is worth watching when it is a burning injustice that Tories misrule locally after the Grenfell Tower inferno. Thursday is the next battle in a political war for fairness, decency and valued public services.