Our performance in last night’s local elections defied even our most optimistic expectations. We made a net gain of 12 councils and over 700 councillors – and the press noticed. We were pride of place on the Guardian’s homepage:

What. A. Day.

1271 (and counting) Liberal Democrat Councillors elected. 647 Councillor gains.

We held control of every Council we were defending. We won control of twelve more.

We had an amazing night in yesterday’s local elections. Voters are swinging behind us and the results show it – we have over 500 new Lib Dem councillors and have taken control of 12 new councils!

There’s nothing better than waking up to “Lib Dem GAIN” after a night of elections. And there’s been a long, long list of those after last night. We’re absolutely delighted – congratulations to all our hardworking activists!

Good morning – and make no mistake – this is a very good morning for the Liberal Democrats.

We’ve held every council we’re defending so far!