Although it wasn't a general election, Thursday's local and regional polls involved around 80% of Britain – and the result is a huge call for change.

Labour and the Conservatives, the two main parties who have alternated in power since World War Two, have suffered huge losses to the left-wing Green and right-wing Reform parties, with the centrist Liberal Democrats also gaining.

While England grapples with a switch to a genuine multiplicity of parties, Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties look set to control the devolved country assemblies – raising the prospect of further divisions.

CGTN's Iolo ap Dafydd reports.