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Labour win Blackpool South in blow to Sunak
Chris Webb Keir Starmer

RISHI SUNAK continued his run of by-election misery as the Tories were comprehensively defeated in the Blackpool South poll.

Labour’s Chris Webb took the seat on a 26 per cent swing, the third-largest in a post-war by-election.

Just as worrying for the Conservatives, their candidate was only a whisper ahead of the right-wing insurgent Reform party in third place.

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