UK Labour party loses heartland parliament seat to left-wing Greens

Labour also finished behind the hard-right, anti-immigration Reform UK party in Thursday's by-election for the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat in northern Manchester, as the country's traditional two-party system fractures. The result, in a constituency Labour has dominated for decades, shows how the centre-left party is being squeezed by both ends of the political spectrum, and is likely to fuel speculation about how much longer 63-year-old Starmer can stay in office. It also suggests that...