Labour crushed... and more to come

WHILE the winner of the Gorton and Denton by-election can be easily identified, the situation facing the many losers is far more complex.

- NICK FERRARI

The largest loser is, of course, Sir Keir Starmer, a man whose judgment on everything from staff appointments to the Chagos Islands appears calamitous.

To spend so much political capital on blocking Andy Burnham, only to see it blow up in such a spectacular fashion, is beyond embarrassing.

It heaps yet more pressure on him as he struggles to escape the series of dizzying U-turns that have seen support for both his party and its leader haemorrhaging.

This constituency had been the sixth safest Labour seat and less than two years

NOTTINGHAM triple killer Valdo Calocane was not sectioned because staff involved feared it could appear racist.

An inquiry heard of concerns of “research that shows over-representation of young black males in detention”. Now even our personal safety plays second fiddle to what at times can be a ludicrously misplaced devotion to the race agenda.