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Labour’s high stakes
The Journal
|December 02, 2025
PARTY with no seats at all on a 75-seat city council went into a by-election as hot favourite and duly won it.
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Now the same party ~ with its one councillor - is a clear favourite to take charge of the whole council in six months.
Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of politics in the mid-2020s.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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