Green surge: Britons ‘fed up’ with ‘authoritarian Blairism’ and two-party system as membership swells
The Green party was gaining support from Labour voters who felt disillusioned with the “authoritarian Blairism” of Keir Starmer.
The Green party was gaining support from Labour voters who felt disillusioned with the “authoritarian Blairism” of Keir Starmer.
The election is “a free hit” for the Tories and a chance “to give Labour another kicking”.
The Labour leader has denied trying to make deputy Angela Rayner the scapegoat for the party’s defeat in Hartlepool.
"You can't sack an elected deputy leader," she reminded Sir Keir.
"Sacking Nick Brown, one of the most experienced and tactically astute chief whips the party has ever had, is inept in the extreme," John McDonnell said.
“Our politics are better when women are at the top table," she said after becoming elected as the first ever metro mayor in the country.
Labour has won 10 seats, the Tories two, while one result is due to be announced later on Sunday.
The Labour leader stripped his deputy Angela Rayner of her chairman position in a move criticised by left-wing MPs.
The result has been described as another staggering and historic election outcome in the North-East.
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