Labour faces the “drastic” loss of more than 75 per cent of the council seats it is defending across England next week , according to a devastating new assessment from a leading polling expert. Conservative peer Robert Hayward predicts that Sir Keir Starmer ’s party will lose 1,850 seats in the local elections, while Nigel Farage ’s Reform UK party will be the biggest winners, gaining 1,550 seats, and the Greens will pick up 500. Labour is also predicted to lose out in its former fiefdoms in Wales and Scotland , where Plaid Cymru is set to be the largest party and the SNP just shy of a majority. Lord Hayward said the scale of the losses would be “bad news for Sir Keir and Labour”, which is defending 2,557 seats. “I’d use the word ‘drastic’,” he told The Independent .…