The Labour Party has held on to 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.
Opinion polls had suggested that Labour would lose the seat in the face of a strident anti-Starmer campaign from the Left-wing firebrand candidate George Galloway and waning support for Labour among Muslim voters.
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