MADRID, 4 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The current mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has achieved re-election in office in the by-elections held last Thursday in several towns in England and Wales with 43.7 percent support, ahead of his rival from the Conservative Party, Susan Hall.
Khan has achieved 1,088,225 votes, compared to Hall’s 811,518, and well ahead of Rob Blackie (Liberal Democratic Party, 6.1 percent), Zoë Garbett (Green Party, 5.8 percent) and Howard Cox (Reform United Kingdom, former Brexit Party, 3.5 percent).
Participation was 40.5 percent in this vote, which allows Khan to undertake a historic third term at the head of the London City Council.
This Saturday the results of the two districts of the British capital that remained to be made official have been published and the victory of the Labor Party, which has been the great winners of this vote, has been confirmed.
Official data also indicate that the Liberal Democratic Party, ranked as the third or fourth British political party in recent years, has been the second with the most elected councilors so far, ahead of the ruling Conservative Party.
The official partial results give the Labor Party 1,069 council offices and 49 city councils, followed by the Liberal Democratic Party with 519 council offices and 12 city councils and the Conservative Party, which has confirmed 498 council offices and six city councils. The Green Party has obtained 159 council seats and other formations and independents, 284, and only three town councils remain to close the voting results.
Labor has also won in other fiefdoms such as the West Midlands, where Richar Parker has won in a new setback for Rishi Sunak. Parker has won by just 1,508 votes, thus displacing the outgoing conservative Andy Street from power.
Where there are no changes in the Mayor’s Office is in Greater Manchester, where the outgoing president, Andy Burnham, will continue in power with 63.4 percent of the vote to guarantee a third consecutive term. His rival, conservative Laura Evans, has achieved 10.4 percent support.
“This has been the final test before the general election and it is clear that Conservative MPs are warned,” said Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who believes they must be “looking over their shoulders in terror.”
“We have triumphed in blue wall scenarios and we have seen a real collapse in support for (Prime Minister) Rishi Sunak and his Government, which remains out of reality,” he added.
Meanwhile, the leader of the British Labor Party, Keir Starmer, stated this Saturday that the conservatives “do not deserve to govern” the United Kingdom after the defeat they suffered in the municipal elections.
Starmer believes that this victory “will go down in the history books” because “you have been able to convince people that we are a changed Labor Party, with a positive plan to govern the country”, he declared during an event at the East Midlands, north of London, according to Sky News.
These results confirm that people “are fed up with your division, your chaos, your failure,” according to Starmer. “I’m sorry. I don’t care what political party you belong to. If you leave a country but what you found it like 14 years ago, you don’t deserve to govern,” he stressed.
The elections are “the beginning of turning the page” before the general elections, although he has warned that “there is a lot of work to do.”
