
Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris
In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation In the wake of Labour’s third-place showing at last Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection, Keir Starmer could have responded with a mixture of magnanimity, grit, and a clear appreciation of what had just happened. He might have congratulated the Green party’s new MP Hannah Spencer, and insisted that the themes of inequality and everyday strug














