Voters in Holborn and St Pancras have cast their ballots in a by-election to replace Sir Keir Starmer, with Labour and the Greens locked in a close contest and counting under way.
Voters in Holborn and St Pancras have cast their ballots in a by-election to replace Sir Keir Starmer, with Labour and the Greens locked in a close contest and counting under way.
Turnout in by-elections usually limps in under 30%. Half the adults here rent privately, and plenty of them aren’t on the register at all. So a few thousand people will decide who sits in Westminster. That’s not a mandate, it’s a raffle. Two parties sweating buckets over a vote most of the street didn’t know was happening.