Voters go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new MP for the seat of Batley and Spen. The West Yorkshire constituency voted for Labour's Tracy Brabin at the last general election, but she stood down ...
Labour activists campaigning ahead of the Batley and Spen by-election have been pelted with eggs and kicked in the head, the region's mayor has said. Tracy Brabin said she was leafleting for Labour in ...
Batley deserves better, according to local residents who want to see improved parking enforcement and safety in the town ...
We need to place Labour’s victory in Batley and Spen into perspective. It was a narrow win, though unexpected, even allowing for George Galloway’s strange intervention. It doesn’t prove a thing, ...
The election this week of the sister of Jo Cox, a lawmaker who was killed in 2016, was seen as a victory for Labour’s leader in a region where Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives had made big ...
Candidates and canvassers have been heckled and manhandled in byelection described as the ‘worst ever’ “This is the worst election I have ever seen in my life,” says Dr Abdulrehman Rajpura. The ...
Uncertainties and local factors in the 1 July byelection mean the party will not be able to relax even if it sees off competitors A lot rides on Batley and Spen. Labour will be desperate to buck its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Upper Batley High School (Upper Batley High School) Devastated pupils at a Batley school have vowed to rebuild their ...
"If we can't win white working class voters in Hartlepool and if we lose South Asian voters in Batley, this raises the question of where in the North can we ever win?" The words of this former Labour ...
Labour activists campaigning ahead of the Batley and Spen by-election have been pelted with eggs and kicked in the head, the region's mayor has said. Tracy Brabin said she was leafleting for Labour in ...