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7. Excellent news

Fri Jul 2, 2021, 12:21 PM

Jul 2021

Especially as both the Tories and the media seemed to assume that the seat was going Tory.

George Galloway is truly vile, though.

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Batley and Spen: Labour hold seat in by-election [View all] T_i_B Jul 2021 OP

Indeed Soph0571 Jul 2021 #1

I agree. But it's still sobering that the results were so close. abqtommy Jul 2021 #2

The nasty that is Galloway has a lot to do with that Soph0571 Jul 2021 #4

Tories managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory T_i_B Jul 2021 #5

The campaign seems to have been more about Galloway acting as a spoiler muriel_volestrangler Jul 2021 #3

Excellent news LeftishBrit Jul 2021 #7