The Conservatives have regained control of key Labour target council Barnet as some voters appeared to punish Jeremy Corbyn's party for the anti-Semitism controversy.
Labour went into the election hoping for an historic victory that would have seen them take control for the first time since the authority's creation in 1964.
But the anti-Semitism controversy which has dogged Mr Corbyn in recent weeks "made a difference" to voters in the north London borough - an area with a large Jewish population - according to the Labour group leader.
The Tories made concerted efforts to target wards with large Jewish populations in the wake of the controversy.
And the breakthrough came when they made a clean...