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Starmer: I'll keep fighting
The Herald
|February 28, 2026
SIR Keir Starmer has vowed to “keep on fighting” despite Labour's humiliating defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
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The Prime Minister faces intense pressure to shift his party to the left or resign after Labour came third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the previously rock-solid Greater Manchester constituency.
But speaking to reporters, he acknowledged it was a “disappointing” result and that voters were “frustrated’, but insisted he would carry on. Asked if he had considered resigning, Sir Keir said: “I came into politics late in life to fight for change for those people who need it.
“I will keep on fighting for those people for as long as I’ve got breath in my body.”
Sir Keir also pledged to “fight against extremes in politics’ on both the left and the right that threatened to “tear our country apart.
This story is from the February 28, 2026 edition of The Herald.
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