Britain's opposition Labour Party won a parliamentary seat in northern England on Friday (May 3) and control of several councils, inflicting heavy losses on the governing Conservatives to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Blackpool South was the only parliamentary seat up for grabs after the Conservative lawmaker quit over a lobbying scandal.
WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
Blackpool South was the only parliamentary seat up for grabs after the Conservative lawmaker quit over a lobbying scandal.
WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00I declare that Christophe Paul Webb is duly elected as the Member of Parliament for the Blackpool South constituency.
00:30Thank you everyone for coming out this morning. I know a lot of you were at the camp and were staying up till 6 o'clock to watch the incredible result we've had today.
00:43We absolutely smashed it, won every polling district. Blackpool turned red, they want Labour, they want Kieran Number 10, they want a Labour government.
00:52The people of Blackpool South have made it clear, Rishi needs to admit he's failed and call a general election now and let's get a Labour government.
01:07It is incredible to have won by such a swing, 26% swing, that's the fifth swing of over 20% to the Labour Party in by-elections in recent months and years.
01:20It is a fantastic result, a really first class result and here in Blackpool a message has been sent directly to the Prime Minister,
01:30directly to the Prime Minister because this was a parliamentary vote, this was directly to Rishi Sunak to say we're fed up with your decline, your chaos and your division and we want change.