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THE Greens led a clamour for electoral reform yesterday after a record one million votes across Britain left them with a single seat.
The so-called Green surge saw the party hit 1,138,445 votes — four times more than at any previous general election.
But Caroline Lucas, who increased her vote share in Brighton Pavilion by 11 per cent, will remain the sole Green MP for the next five years.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE