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Fake news surrounds Labour's electoral progress
Last week, Labour built on last year’s historic vote at the general election despite months of unrelenting hostility from much of the media, writes Matt Willgress

ALTHOUGH you might not have read much about it, there were a lot of good news stories for Labour in the local elections. Nationally, the results show Labour is another step closer to power.
As John McDonnell said, “people thought the general election result was a fluke ... we’ve demonstrated it wasn’t. We’ve consolidated that and we’ve moved it forward in terms of percentage share of the vote.”
To take the results as a whole, Labour won 1,018 seats more than the Tories. The Tories lost 33 seats. Labour gained 77.
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