‘First-class win’ for Labour in Blackpool, says Keir Starmer

it is incredible to won by such a swing 26% swing that’s the fifth swing of over 20% to the labor party in byelections in recent months and years it is a fantastic result a really first class result and here in blackpole a message has been sent directly to the Prime Minister directly to the Prime Minister because this was a parliamentary vote this was directly to rishy unac to say we’re fed up with your decline your chaos and your Division and we want change

Keir Starmer called the result in the Blackpool South byelection ‘truly historic’ after the party’s candidate, Chris Webb, won the seat with the third biggest swing from the Conservative to Labour in postwar history.
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Webb, a local and the firm favourite, won with 10,825 votes, followed by David Jones, the Conservative candidate, with a distant 3,218 votes, who finished narrowly ahead of the Reform candidate, Mark Butcher, on 3,101 votes. The Labour leader called out the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to say the country is demanding change.

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  5. Reporter: What is your reaction to the results Mr Prime Minister.
    Sunak:"Well clearly it was a difficult night, and we had hoped for a better outcome. And I still congratulate our party's candidate who worked so hard. But lets look at the facts. The results still shows many people did not vote for the Labour party because they do not trust Starmer and the Labour party. Why? Because they have no plan. But we do, and as I've said before, my plan is working. So I say, lets stick to the plan, because Labour will take us back to square one. We will learn lessons from this result but I am determined to continue to deliver for the British people.

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