United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered another major blow to his credibility early on Friday morning when his Labour Party lost a formerly safe parliamentary seat in a special election. Not only did Labour lose, but it lost half of its vote share on its last result in this seat in 2024, and came third behind the far-left Green Party and Nigel Farage’s populist-right Reform Party.

Following the result in the constituency of Gorton and Denton, Starmer’s political rivals in Labour are unsheathing their political knives. Angel Rayner, widely seen as a top potential challenger to Starmer, stated, “This result must be a wake-up call. It’s time to really listen and to reflect. Voters want the change that we promised and they voted for. If we want to unrig the system, if we want to make the........

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