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The count of votes in the Chesham and Amersham by-election at Chesham Leisure Centre in Chesham, Buckinghamshire
LABOUR suffered its worst by-election result ever today in another chastening night for leader Sir Keir Starmer.
Coming just weeks after the Tories took Hartlepool for the first time in a separate by-election last month, Labour finished fourth in Chesham and Amersham, polling just 622 votes — a 1.6 per cent share — losing its deposit in the process.
The vote in the Buckinghamshire constituency was also a big setback for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as the Lib Dems overturned a Conservative majority of more than 16,000 to win the seat for the first time after nearly 50 years of Tory rule.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP