Labour confounded expectations and held on to its Batley and Spen constituency. Kim Leadbeater, sister of murdered former MP Jo Cox, won by the slender margin of just 323 votes. Many believed that the ...

The Conservative Party's co-chair has admitted Matt Hancock's COVID rule-breaking was partly to blame for their by-election loss in Batley and Spen - but refused on 19 occasions to say whether the ...

By-elections rarely cause political earthquakes but as the most recent one in Chesham and Amersham has highlighted, they can cause tremors that reverberate through political parties, knocking a brick ...

Following Tracy Brabin’s election as the first mayor of West Yorkshire, the Labour seat for the constituency of Batley and Spen has opened up. Kim Leadbeater has confirmed that she will stand for the ...

Reform UK has announced it will not stand a candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election in a bid to boost the Conservative Party’s chances of taking the Labour-held seat. Leader Richard Tice said he ...

Labour has won the Batley and Spen by-election, a victory that will come as a huge relief to Keir Starmer amid rumours a loss could have triggered a leadership challenge. Kim Leadbeater won the West ...

Kim Leadbeater follows in sister Jo Cox's footsteps as she attends her first Parliamentary session. Sir Keir Starmer hails Kim Leadbeater's victory in Batley and Spen as "just the start" for his party ...

Kim Leadbeater, Labour’s candidate in Batley and Spen, says she is ‘the candidate the Tories are afraid of’ (Getty Images) Sir Alan Campbell, Labour’s chief whip, is so new to the post that his ...

Keir Starmer has lived to fight another day as Labour leader after the party clinched a close victory in the Batley and Spen by-election. Next Labour leader: who would replace Keir Starmer? ‘Keir ...

Labour is gearing up for another test in its former electoral heartlands as a by-election in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen looms. What next for Keir Starmer after Labour’s historic ...

The election this week of the sister of Jo Cox, a lawmaker who was killed in 2016, was seen as a victory for Labour’s leader in a region where Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives had made big ...