Friday 24 June 2022 10:45 PM Voters STILL don't like you, Keir Starmer is told: After victory for ... trends now

Friday 24 June 2022 10:45 PM Voters STILL don't like you, Keir Starmer is told: After victory for ... trends now
Friday 24 June 2022 10:45 PM Voters STILL don't like you, Keir Starmer is told: After victory for ... trends now

Friday 24 June 2022 10:45 PM Voters STILL don't like you, Keir Starmer is told: After victory for ... trends now

Labour is not on track to win an outright majority at the next election after the party’s underwhelming victory in Wakefield, Sir Keir Starmer was warned last night.

A polling expert said yesterday’s win in West Yorkshire masked a lack of ‘enthusiasm’ for the party nationwide.

The party regained the traditionally Labour seat with a swing of more than 12 per cent to achieve its first by-election gain since Corby in Northamptonshire in 2012.

Labour leader Sir Keir claimed the result put Britain ‘on track for a Labour government’. 

But Sir Keir barely outperformed the by-election swings achieved by his two predecessors, Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband, both of whom were soundly beaten in subsequent general elections. 

Pollster Sir John Curtice said voters hadn’t yet ‘bought into’ Labour’s vision, despite the Conservative Party’s political struggles amid the cost of living squeeze.

Labour is not on track to win an outright majority at the next election after the party’s underwhelming victory in Wakefield, Sir Keir Starmer was warned last night

Labour is not on track to win an outright majority at the next election after the party’s underwhelming victory in Wakefield, Sir Keir Starmer was warned last night

Sir John told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The Wakefield result does not suggest any great enthusiasm for the Labour Party. 

'The Conservative vote is more than twice as big as the rise in the Labour vote, and it looks as if quite a lot of voters in Wakefield who were unhappy with the Conservatives took the opportunity to vote for an independent candidate, who was a Tory councillor who resigned in March in part over Partygate.

‘He got over 7 per cent of the vote, and a lot of that probably came from the Conservatives.

‘There still seems to be a question about the extent to which voters, many of whom are clearly unhappy with the Conservatives, have bought into Labour as an alternative.’

Sir Keir insisted the Wakefield result indicated a ‘historic’ by-election for his party, adding: ‘This puts us now absolutely on track for a Labour government, which is absolutely coming.

‘That tells you that the next government is going to be a Labour government, and the sooner the better – because the country voted yesterday in both by-elections, no confidence in this

read more from dailymail.....

PREV Now Biden announces toughest emission rules on trucks, buses and R.V.s in ... trends now
NEXT In news vacuum, rumours and concern swirl over Catherine mogaznewsen