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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.
Burnham launches his campaign to return to Westminster
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour