Labour leader says UK local elections show people are ‘fed up with failed government’ and calls for general election
One parliamentary seat up for grabs – Labour candidate Chris Webb won it in the Blackpool South by-election with 10,825 votesCounting is now under way in the 107 local councils in England that held elections on Thursday
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (centre) and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves celebrate with David Skaith at Northallerton Town Football Club (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Voters in Britain cast their ballots on Thursday for more than 2,000 seats on local authorities across England and a handful of high-profile mayoral elections, including in the capital, London.
Blackpool South was the only parliamentary seat up for grabs after the incumbent, elected in 2019 as a Conservative candidate, quit over a lobbying scandal.
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