'It's A Catastrophe': Labour MP Hits Out At Keir Starmer After By-Election Disaster

A grim-faced Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell at the by-election count.

Voters in the Longsight area of Manchester, northwest England, enter a polling station, Thursday Feb. 26, 2026, as voters head to the polls in the Gorton and Denton constituency. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

A Labour MP has hit out at Keir Starmer after the party’s humiliating defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Karl Turner said the result – in which the party came third behind the Greens and Reform UK – was “a catastrophe”.