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Embarrassing defeat for UK's Starmer as Greens seize Labour stronghold (www.reuters.com)
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The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage's Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

They've economically tiptoed towards the left, and have actually been doing some pretty good things (as you rightly point out) - but it's their social policies which have shifted so far to the right - and generally that seems to be what we colloquially judge our left and right on.

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