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Winning Lib Dem candidate Helen Morgan responds to the result of last week's by-election
A THREE-TIME Labour candidate in North Shropshire said that the party allowed the Lib Dems to take the seat in last week’s by-election after he was prevented from standing due to his support for Palestinian rights.
Graeme Currie, who contested the seat for Labour in 2015, 2017 and 2019 — finishing second on each occasion — has shared his disgust at the party’s approach to the seat which swung away from the Tories in last week’s vote.
The by-election, which was called amid the Tories’ Owen Paterson sleaze saga, saw the Liberal Democrats’ Helen Morgan win a seat in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote dropped by 31 per cent.
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
