In blow to Starmer, UK Labour party loses parliamentary seat to left-wing Greens

Britain’s ruling Labour party loses a crunch local poll in one of its traditional heartlands to the left-wing Greens, official results show, adding to the woes of unpopular Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Green candidate Hannah Spencer won the by-election in the Manchester suburb of Gorton and Denton with almost 15,000 votes as Labour slumped to third place behind the hard-right Reform UK party, which finished second.

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