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Labour rounds off polls with stunning Bristol mayor win

LABOUR’S electoral victories continued over the weekend, after the party’s Marvin Rees was elected mayor of Bristol with nearly double the votes of the incumbent mayor.

Jeremy Corbyn rushed to Bristol to celebrate the success of Mr Rees, who was said to be the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be directly elected mayor of a major European city.

Bristol — England’s fifth most affluent city — was once the country’s leading slave trade port.

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