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Friday briefing: Labour's wafer-thin win in Batley and Spen |


Last modified on Fri 2 Jul 2021 04.38 EDT
Top story: ‘They’ve voted for hope’
Good morning, I’m Graham Russell and welcome to Friday and the stories making the news so far today.
Kim Leadbeater has been hailed as “brilliant and brave” by Labour leader Keir Starmer this morning after she defied glum predictions and won the Batley and Spen byelection. Labour beat the Tories by just over 300 votes, losing nearly all of its already-slender majority of 3,525 in the West Yorkshire seat that it has held since 1997.
Leadbeater said she was “absolutely delighted that the people of Batley and Spen have rejected division and they’ve voted for hope”. Brendan Cox, the widower of Leadbeater’s sister Jo Cox, who was murdered in 2016, tweeted: “We are all incredibly proud of Kim Leadbeater today and Jo would have been too.” ....

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