Sunak spinning again. What Starmer said was they needed to win the constituency in places like Harlow to be on track in a general election. And that's exactly right - it's right in the electoral majority area that needs to swing in a GE.
What Starmer didn't say was 'we need to win Harlow...
Labour have conceded.
It's rather weird that this must feel a bit like a let-down for Labour. But really - it wasn't likely that someone with 73% of the vote last time around was going to lose out! The Tories will be spinning it is a great result for them. But....
You really could not make this up....
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections