PM urges voters to reject 'toxic' politics as by-election polls open
Sir Keir Starmer has made a final desperate plea to voters in Gorton and Denton, urging them to turn against “toxic” politics and make a choice between “unity or division” in a crucial by-election which experts believe could herald a new era of British politics.
With the vote expected to be a major test of his leadership, the prime minister made a last-ditch attempt to persuade voters to back his party. Ahead of the vote, Labour appeared to be neck and neck with the Greens and Reform in a fight to win the Greater Manchester seat, with any of the three parties in with a chance of winning.
Sir Keir Starmer has made a final desperate plea to voters in Gorton and Denton, urging them to turn against “toxic” politics and make a choice between “unity or division” in a crucial by-election which experts believe could herald a new era of British politics.
With the vote expected to be a major test of his leadership, the prime minister made a last-ditch attempt to persuade voters to back his party. Ahead of the vote, Labour appeared to be neck and neck with the Greens and Reform in a fight to win the Greater Manchester seat, with any of the three parties in with a chance of winning.
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Tough, possibly self-defeating and, given the current political situation, a near-impossibility: the Telegraph’s ‘Matt’ - who always has his finger on the Zeitgeist - has a cartoon today showing a voter emerging from a polling booth, ballot paper in hand, and asking ‘Can I order off menu?’
(O/T: I’ve just spotted that BBC sounds is repeating the 1981 dramatisation of ‘Lost Horizon’ - well worth a listen (and refreshingly free of the unwelcome preaching and political correctness the editors invariably shoehorn into any classic text these days.)
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