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Very encouraging to see that Reform can be handily beaten in England as well as Wales (Caerphilly).
Disaster for Labour, questions will be asked about Andy Burnham and Starmer will be considering his position. Can't see him budging until after the May elections though.
Well done to Hannah and the Greens.
Whatever you think of the Greens, we can all be happy that Matt Goodwin is having a bad day. He deserves it, after all.
It'd be nice if this made him re-evaluate some of his choices, but I don't hold out much hope.
Reform, the gracious losers, has been calling the vote fraudulent even before the results were out.
Goodwin has taken to ranting about a coalition of 'Islamists and woke progressives'. So no, I don't think he's going to take any lessons from this.
At least I can safely say I haven't misjudged him!
Labour will write it off as a regular by-election tizzy against the party of government and stay the course.
They'll try and if reform had won, maybe it would've worked.