After a long night of counting, and an even longer campaign, the Labour party have been declared the winners of the Peterborough by-election. Lisa Forbes, the Labour party candidate, will replace Fiona Onasanya who was ousted from the seat earlier this year after she was convicted of perverting the course of justice. Forbes won 10,483 votes in the election, ahead of the Brexit party on 9,801, and the Conservatives on 7,243. In a speech celebrating her victory, Forbes said that the Brexit party’s rejection at the ballot box showed that the ‘politics of division will not win.’
Tonight will be a disappointing result for the Brexit party candidate, Mike Greene, and the party’s leader, Nigel Farage. In the run up to the election, it seemed as if the Brexit party were favourites to win, as they fought to send their first ever MP to Westminster in an area which voted 61 per cent to Leave in 2016.
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