Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth loses seat to pro-Palestine candidate

The senior shadow cupboard member was crushed by Shockat Adam in Leicester South, with 14,739 votes to 13,760. 

Adam’s coverage pledges included defending the NHS, standing up for world peace and justice and championing reasonably priced housing. 

Adam mentioned he would help a ceasefire in Gaza, one thing which Ashworth had did not vote for at Westminster.

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In the meantime in Illford North, shadow well being secretary Wes Streeting almost misplaced his seat to a different unbiased. Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad got here inside a couple of hundred votes of the senior determine, taking 15,119 to his 15,647. Streeting’s vote share was down by 20 factors. 

In Islington North. ex-Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn devoted his victory as an unbiased to the folks of his constituency, as he loved candy success over his former occasion.

He efficiently retained his long-held seat of Islington North in London, beating his Labour rival by greater than 7000 votes.

In his victory speech, he claimed his marketing campaign had proven “what kinder, gentler and extra wise, extra inclusive politics, can result in”.

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Later, unbiased candidate Faiza Shaheen mentioned Labour ought to be “ashamed” for letting former Tory chief Sir Iain Duncan Smith win as she accused the occasion of splitting the vote within the Chingford and Woodford Inexperienced constituency.

Shaheen, who was dropped by Labour after liking a sequence of posts on social media platform X after being accused of downplaying antisemitism allegations, got here third with 12,445 votes behind her former occasion’s consultant Shama Tatler on 12,524 votes.

“I’m so offended that the Labour Occasion has accomplished this to Chingford & Woodford Inexperienced… they’ve returned Iain Duncan Smith to Westminster and ought to be ashamed,” she posted to X.

“Our vote was a mix of these appalled by how I used to be handled, those that took challenge with having an imposed candidate who didn’t know us, those that have been by no means going to vote Labour after Starmer’s stance on Gaza, and those who have by no means voted earlier than.

“Labour cut up the vote the second they deselected me.”