Labour has won the Blackpool by-election as the Tory party also performed badly in local election results overnight, losing 280 seats so far. Here are the results:
Labour: 736 seats (+115)
Tories: 283 seats (-280)
Liberal Democrats: 242 seats (+43)
Green: 77 seats (+35)
Reform: 0 seats
Some Tories will be breathing a sigh of relief not to have beaten into third place in Blackpool by Richard Tice’s party. Ben Houchen’s re-election for a third term as Tees Valley mayor will also have calmed some nerves. But there are few other glimmers of hope. Keir Starmer has won key bellwether councils, such as Redditch, Thurrock and Hartlepool suggesting that Labour is on course for a general election win, even if there are signs that his position on Gaza cost his party seats.
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