Col on Nostr: Labour has won a “sandcastle majority”, James Kanagasooriam told Tortoise. “It ...
Labour has won a “sandcastle majority”, James Kanagasooriam told Tortoise. “It might look impressive, but it could easily be swept away.” Starmer won 64% of the seats with just 34% of the overall vote – a record low for a British prime minister – and just 1.6 percentage points more than Jeremy Corbyn won in 2019. “But for the rise of the Labour Party in Scotland,” where the SNP lost almost all its seats, says John Curtice, “we would be reporting that basically Labour’s vote has not changed.
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