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Labour win Blackpool South in blow to Sunak
Newly elected Labour MP Chris Webb, with Labour leader Keir Starmer celebrating at Blackpool Cricket Club after being declared winner in the Blackpool South by-election, May 3, 2024
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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