Labour has lost a north London by-election to the Greens as the party continues to struggle in polls in the capital.
On Friday, Ruairidh Paton won a landslide victory to become a councillor in Haringey.
The Green candidate was elected with 1,059 votes to Labour’s 589 in the St. Ann’s ward, which was a traditional Labour stronghold in Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s constituency.
The local election was called following the resignation of councillor Tammy Hymas, who quit over council budget cuts blamed on a shortfall in central Government funding.
Mr Paton said: “In this campaign we spoke to more than 2,000 residents and we heard the same story time and again.
“People are struggling with bills, soaring rent and food prices, and feel abandoned by politicians who don’t care about them.
“We’re going to build something different.”
It comes after a string of local by-election defeats in the capital for Labour. In recent weeks the party has lost council seats in Westminster to the Tories and to an independent canidate in Redbridge.
Reform also ousted Labour in a landslide win in Tameside, Greater Manchester on Thursday night.
Allan Hopwood became the party’s first elected politician in the city - receiving 911 votes to Labour’s 489 to take the Longdendale ward council seat.
Next month there are polls in 24 of the country’s 317 councils as well as some mayoral authorities.
Some 1,650 seats will be contested on 14 county councils, eight unitary authorities, one metropolitan district, and in the Isles of Scilly.
There will also be mayoral elections in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Doncaster, the West of England, North Tyneside, Hull and East Yorkshire and Greater Lincolnshire on May 1.
Elections to all 21 county councils had been due to take place, but last month the government announced they would be postponed in nine areas so that local authorities could restructure and merge.
It will be the first large set of voting since Labour's landslide victory at the general election last year and it is expected to indicate how voters are reacting to Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
