Starmer: This is a clear message for the PM
Sir Keir Starmer hails a ''cracking'' win in Blackpool South with Chris Webb achieving a swing of over 26% which the Labour leader claims "no one expected". Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00A cracking win here in Blackpool, a 26% swing. Nobody expected that. It
00:07is far bigger swing than anybody expected. The Conservatives only
00:10just crawled into second place. We have shown we can win in other
00:15places. Hartlepool, a very important win for us in the north.
00:19Redditch is a bellwether seat, very important we won there. Winning
00:23in the south as well as you will have seen. Harlow, disappointing. In
00:27the end, I think it was a handful of votes we lost by. Obviously more
00:31work to do there. Overall, it is very difficult to say anything
00:36other than this is a clear message to the Prime Minister that people
00:40have had enough of decline, they want change. But also vindication
00:45that this changed Labour Party is unrecognisable from the party of
00:502019. It is a party that has earned the trust and respect of voters
00:54when they voted yesterday.