Gaza: Jon Ashworth loses in Leicester as independents win Blackburn and Batley

The Shadow Paymaster Normal Jonathan Ashworth has misplaced his Leicester seat and each Blackburn and Dewsbury and Batley have fallen to independents, amid indicators of a voter backlash over Gaza.

In Blackburn, Labour fell 0.3 proportion factors behind an impartial who secured 27% of the vote to take the north-west constituency. In Dewsbury and Batley, Labour’s vote collapsed by greater than 36% for former Rachel Reeves adviser Heather Iqbal.

Labour has additionally didn’t retake the previous Labour MP Claudia Webbe’s Leicester seat or win in Chingford and Woodford Inexperienced.

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In the meantime Shadow Well being Secretary Wes Streeting gained however got here inside 1,000 votes of shedding his east London seat, Ilford North, Rushanara Ali gained narrowly in Bethnal Inexperienced, and Jess Phillips solely gained her seat in Birmingham by round 700 votes.

Sky Information evaluation has proven that the Labour vote is down by greater than 14% in areas with a Muslim inhabitants above 15%, with anger over Gaza contributing to the big impartial vote we’re seeing in some constituencies.

Labour has confronted a string of challenges from independents campaigning exhausting to win Muslim voters angered by Labour’s failure to indicate extra help for Palestinians in the course of the Israel-Hamas battle.

Labour additionally didn’t win in Chingford and Woodford Inexperienced in opposition to its former candidate.

The dimensions of the defeat of Jon Ashworth,who noticed his share of the vote.collapse by 35 proportion factors versus 2019, is a serious blow.

It additionally leaves the get together down two senior shadow cupboard member, after Shadow Tradition Secretary Thangam Debbonaire additionally misplaced in Bristol Central.

In the meantime the Tories managed to win in Leicester East. Webbe stood as an impartial. She had been elected because the Labour MP for Leicester East on the 2019 normal election. She had beforehand served as a councillor in Islington and as a member of the NEC, the place in 2018 she was elected chair of the disputes panel.

Claudia Webbe was convicted of harassment in November 2021 and misplaced her attraction for this conviction in Might 2022, and Labour known as on her to resign as an MP. She had the Labour whip suspended in September 2020 over the harassment expenses and has not regained it.

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