Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party has failed to secure its first MP as Labour took the Peterborough byelection in a closely-fought contest. The Brexit Party, which launched less than six months ago, was beaten by just 683 votes as the Conservatives fell back into third place. “Despite the differing opinions across our city, the fact that the Brexit Party have been rejected here in Peterborough shows that the politics of division will not win,” she said. MomentumThe defeated Brexit Party candidate Mike Greene admitted they had been unable to match Labour’s established organisation in the constituency. Onasanya was elected as a Labour MP in 2017 with a wafer-thin majority of 607 but was suspended from the party after she was sentenced.

Source: The Irish Times June 07, 2019 07:07 UTC