Election 2024: Keir Starmer makes election victory speech
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“Election victories don't fall from the sky”, Sir Keir Starmer declared this morning after Labour won the General Election.
Vowing to “end the chaos” and “begin the work of change” the Labour leader’s victory speech, devoid of charisma or pizzazz, was a clear indication of the dull five years ahead for Britain.
There is no hiding from the fact Labour has overseen a political earthquake and redrawn the nation’s electoral map.
It was an astonishing result that utterly overturned Boris Johnson’s thumping 2019 victory and brutally punished the Tories in what was described by ex-Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland as “electoral Armageddon”.
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Things are about to get a lot worse for Keir Starmer (Image: GETTY)
Jeremy Corbyn’s convincing 24,120-vote victory in Islington North was another bellwether (Image: Getty)
But there are already some cracks beginning to show for Labour, with Sir Keir’s night not quite as rosy as he would have hoped.
For a start, the incoming PM’s own Holborn and St Pancras majority was dramatically slashed from 22,766 in 2019 to 11,572.
Sir Keir won with 18,884 votes – with pro-Palestinian activist, independent Andrew Feinstein, coming in second place.
The pattern was repeated across the nation with former Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Jonathan Ashworth losing his Leicester South seat, which he has held since 2011, to a pro-Gaza candidate in a complete disaster for the high-profile Labour figure.
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It was an astonishing result that utterly overturned Boris Johnson’s thumping 2019 victory (Image: Getty)
It was a similar story in Ilford North where incoming Health Secretary Wes Streeting narrowly beat British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamad by just 528 votes.
And in Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips beat a Workers’ Party candidate by just 700 votes – further demonstrating the pressures on Sir Keir over the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Speaking after the result came in, Ms Phillips described the campaign as “pretty gruesome” and admitted that Gaza was “definitely” part of the reason she lost so many votes. She said: “It was a massive issue.”
Meanwhile, Birmingham Perry Bar saw an Independent gain from Labour, with pro-Gaza Ayoub Khan swiping victory from Labour's Khalid Mahmood – a well-known and respected figure in the Parliamentary party.
Also in the West Midlands, there was an independent surge in Birmingham Ladywood with Labour’s Shabana Mahmood's majority dropping by 40 points and pro-Palestine candidate Akhmed Yakoob winning 33.2% of the vote.
Labour has grappled with its vexed stance on Gaza – an issue which has dogged it since Hamas’s horrific October 7th terror attack in Israel.
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Staunchly pro-Palestinian, now-independent Jeremy Corbyn’s convincing 24,120-vote victory in Islington North was another bellwether that should concern Sir Keir.
The former Labour leader will continue to represent the constituency he has held since 1983 after being brutally expelled from the party he once led.
His win signals the end of the London constituency voting for Labour since 1937 – proving loyalties to the man himself and what he stands for surpass those to the Labour Party itself.
Corbyn ally Diane Abbott also secured a landslide win in Hackney North and Stoke Newington with 23,355 votes in her 10th victory in a row.
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There was a glimmer of hope for Sir Keir, however, in that firebrand, George Galloway lost in Rochdale to former journalist and local Labour candidate Paul Waugh.
But there is no getting away from the fact that traditional Labour voters are abandoning their former political home.
The harsh reality facing Sir Keir is that Labour unity over Gaza is likely to be severely stretched and tested over the next Parliament and these election results have cemented that.
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