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How a British by-election in blue-collar town could seal the fate of UK’s PM Keir Starmer — and impact the US

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Later this month, a by-election will take place in Britain that may seal the fate of the UK’s beleaguered prime minister, Keir Starmer. But it’s also sending a warning to all who believe that the fanatical leftists who now dominate progressive politics must be stopped if we’re still going to have a society worth living in.

It’s a warning not just for Britain but also for America’s Republicans, Vice President JD Vance and tech mogul Elon Musk, who are all expressing huge concern about the erosion of Britain’s historic identity and what this means for the West.

The by-election is for the parliamentary seat in Makerfield, a blue-collar town in the north of England. It’s been caused by the vaulting ambition of one man, Andy Burnham, a former minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government, whose recent popularity as mayor of Manchester has made him the go-to candidate to lever the terminally unpopular Starmer out of office.

Because he needs a seat in the House of Commons to do so, the sitting Labour MP obligingly moved out so that Burnham could contest it.

However, the assumption that he might romp home in a tribally Labour area is in doubt. The election is on a knife edge.

Burnham is resented as an unprincipled carpet-bagger. The main threat he faces, though, comes from a key change in British political life. Blue-collar former Labour voters no........

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