Local elections: neither Corbyn nor May able to break poll deadlock

Labour and Tory leaders both find reasons to celebrate after mixed results
How the night unfolded in key races
Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both sought to put a brave face on local council results that suggested neither can break the electoral deadlock that delivered a hung parliament last June.For Labour, setbacks in the Midlands and a failure to live up to sky-high expectations in the capital, where it had set its sights on Wandsworth and Westminster, took the shine off an unexpected victory