The Labour Party has held onto the constituency of Batley and Spen in a tense by-election that threatened to push another of the party’s stronghold seats to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party won in Batley on Friday morning with a tiny majority of 323, a huge reduction the previous Labour majority of 3,525 under the former MP Tracey Brabin.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/02/batley-spen-by-election-labour-cling-seat-323-votes/
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