Rishi Sunak is braced for a reckoning at the polls this week as all 40million voters in England and Wales get the chance to cast their ballots in local elections. The under-fire PM has been warned he faces losing up to half of the council seats the Tories are defending in England on Thursday. Elections are taking place in more than 2,600 council seats across 107 local authorities - alongside key mayoral battles, and police and crime commissioner elections. The PM also faces a tricky by-election