In a closely watched by-election that was narrowly won by the opposition Labour Party, May’s Conservatives were pushed into third place, behind the Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage. Labour’s successful candidate, Lisa Forbes, won the contest with 10,484 votes, ahead of the Brexit Party with 9,801 votes and the Conservatives with 7,243. “The fact that the Brexit Party have been rejected here in Peterborough shows that the politics of division will not win,” Forbes said. Labour won with just 31% of the vote, as against 29% for the Brexit Party. In the 2016 referendum on Brexit, a majority in Peterborough voted to leave the European Union, making this fertile ground for the Brexit Party.

Source: bd News24 June 07, 2019 07:07 UTC