Lucy Powell is new Deputy Leader of UK’s Labour Party
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Britain's ruling Labour Party suffered a heavy electoral defeat on Friday in Wales, a traditional stronghold, in a result that highlights the threat posed by the Reform UK party, as the government struggles to revive the economy and ease fears about immigration.
Ms Lucy Powell’s win is a message to Mr Starmer that the wider party is increasingly disillusioned with its approach on everything. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The governing party said it was “deeply concerning” that Nigel Farage’s appearance in the U.S. Congress had been brokered by an organization that helped topple Roe v. Wade.
Two Labour councillors have defected to the Green Party, following in the footsteps of a colleague days earlier. Swindon Borough Council's Tom Butcher and Repi Begum will sit as Greens until the end of their terms in May 2026. Councillor Ian Edwards made the same move last week.
In an area that Labour has represented for more than a century, the party was humiliated. Its vote collapsed from 46 per cent to 11 per cent as Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, took control.
The governing party placed a distant third in a special election for a district of Wales it has dominated for a century. Plaid Cymru, a center-left Welsh nationalist party, won.
SIR Keir Starmer suffered another major blow today as Plaid Cymru swept to victory in an historic Welsh by-election. Lindsay Whittle won the crucial Caerphilly Senedd seat off Labour in a huge
The Labour Party had held this parliamentary seat for over a century - but tonight its candidate finished in third place.
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