Comment: Overnight election results in London were very good for Labour, though rather less so in other parts of the country. Winning Wandsworth for the first time since 1978 was the beginning of the party’s success in the capital. ✍️Tony Travers
, also showing a straight switch of votes from the Conservatives to Labour. The north London borough is important to Keir Starmer, who celebrated there this morning, because his predecessor had clearly alienated many of the borough’s Jewish voters., which was seen by most commentators as impossible for Labour to win. Yet, for the first time ever Labour has won the borough in which Parliament and Whitehall are located. There is epic symbolism in this.
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