Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn a general election in 2015, voters deserted Labour en masse in Scotland, once a Labour stronghold. On Friday, John Woodcock, a Labour lawmaker, told the BBC that the Copeland result was a “disaster,” and there was new speculation about Mr. Corbyn’s future. But the result has increased anxiety within the Labour Party about whether it can rely on traditional supporters in the north of England to support Labour as they once did. In Stoke-on-Trent Central, Gareth Snell was elected for Labour with 7,853 votes, compared with 5,233 votes for Mr. Nuttall of UKIP. Yet from the start, Mr. Nuttall’s campaign looked accident prone.

Source: New York Times February 24, 2017 05:15 UTC