Thread: Labour hold Batley & Spen by 323 votes
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Old 02-07-2021, 12:42   #15
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Re: Labour hold Batley & Spam by 323 votes
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
They came within 400 votes of doing so, in a safe Labour seat, only a week after a grubby adulterous scandal involving a very high profile minister. Yes, the Tories could have won it, it’s disappointing that they didn’t, but attempting to paint it as some sort of Tory calamity is silly.

Labour has just about clung on in a seat that ought to have been beyond contest. And all I’m hearing in media commentary today is people asking whether this means Keir Starmer is safe, for now at least. So the win hasn’t even moved the needle towards any sort of “Labour on the up” narrative. All it’s done is move it fractionally away from the “Keir must go” narrative.
I've not painted it as anything, I've just asked Pierre if he was surprised by the result.
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