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Labour easily holds on to Stretford and Urmston in byelection | Labour

Labor retains Greater Manchester constituency of Stretford and Urmston in by-election called after the incumbent Labor MP resigned to become Deputy Mayor Andy Burnham.

Andrew Western, Labor candidate, won majority of 9906. Conservatives fell behind in far secondwinning 15.9% of votes to 69.6% Labour.

With temperature in Manchester below freezing on election day, only 25.8% of eligible voters were out.

Thanking him mother for her supportWestern said result sent a “strong signal” to Rishi Sunak government.

” people of Stretford and Urmston just talk for this district, but for millions more people up as well as down Earth who know what is this government handed over us down for in past 12 years,” he said. “Tori gave up on management, and increasingly clear that the British people give up on them.”

After taking my place in parliament Western is expected step down like a leader of Trafford Council, which he has chaired since 2018.

On the campaign trail, 37-year-old said his three priorities would be fighting for properly funded public services, a green New Deal to address the climate emergency and end the housing crisis.

labor win followed by an easy victory in Chester earlier this month.

Keith Green, former shadow education secretary resigned in November after appointment as Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester. for police and crime. She has been an MP since 2010 and in 2019 won a majority of 16,417.

Western, 37, originally from Labor family. His mother Denise, Trafford’s councilor and works in NHS and his father was senior trade union member and served as a regional secretary of Union of fire brigades.

Stretford and Urmston include Old Trafford. area around the Manchester United stadium, as well as the Trafford shopping centre. It is often referred to as the birthplace of NHS after Trafford general the hospital has become first An NHS hospital when it was opened by the Department of Labor. secretary Aneurin Bevan on July 5, 1948

The constituency has been Labor since its creation in 1997 when Beverly Hughes won seat in Landslide by Tony Blair. She’s gone on be blair childrens minister before you leave in 2010 and present made peer of Gordon Brown. Burnham appointed Hughes as his first deputy when won first mayoral election for Manchester in 2017.

result it will be uncomfortable for Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of influential committee of 1922 of Conservative supporters and MP for adjacent seat Trafford of Altrincham and Sail West.

AT parliament since 1997 Brady has the majority of 6,139 and will be vulnerable in in next general elections if recent polls are correct. Western was runner-up in seat in 2019.

Labor will hope for other by-elections win in early 2023, when voters in West Lancashire goes to the polls to choose Rosie Cooper’s successor. She is announced her resignation in order to take up work as chairman of Mercy Care NHS foundation trust, years after being targeted in far right plot.

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