Gordon Brown has admitted a 'disappointing' night for Labour at the 2008 local elections. Labour lost hundreds of seats and several councils across England and Wales and the Tories have won constituencies in the north of England where they had no coverage for years. The Prime Minister blamed economic conditions out of his control but promised to learn the lessons from defeat. The Conservative's David Cameron called it a 'big moment' and a vote of confidence in his party. In the Local Council elections, the Conservatives picked up forty-four per cent of the vote, well ahead of the Liberal Democrats with 25 per cent and Labour in third place with just twenty-four per cent, their lowest share in living memory.