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THE xenophobic UK Independence Party secured its first ever parliamentary seat yesterday following a by-election in Clacton.
The by-election was triggered after sitting Tory MP Douglas Carswell defected to Ukip and resigned from his seat in August.
Mr Carswell comfortably topped the poll with 21,113 votes — a majority of 12,404.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
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