Keir Starmer reportedly wanted to quit after 2021 Hartlepool defeat
Labour leader thought loss to Tories in byelection meant party going backward, according to new biography
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Labour leader thought loss to Tories in byelection meant party going backward, according to new biography
Defeat in either Wellingborough or Kingswood would see the Government break the record for most by-election defeats since the 1960s.
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Labour won 11,176 votes, while the Conservatives took 8,675. Reform UK came in third with 2,578 votes - meaning their vote combined with the Tories would be more than the Labour vote.
Labour has taken Kingswood from the Conservatives, in another by-election victory for Sir Keir Starmer's party.