Keir Starmer vows to fight on despite humiliation of Green by-election win

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Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “keep on fighting” despite Labour’s humiliating defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election.The Prime Minister faces intense pressure to shift his party to the left or resign after Labour came third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the previously rock-solid Greater Manchester constituency.But speaking to reporters, he acknowledged it was a “disappointing” result and that voters were “frustrated”, but insisted he would carry on.

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00:06Yes, that's right, yes.

00:23Yes, that's right, yes.

00:35I came into politics, late in life as it happens, to fight for change for those people who need it,

00:43the people who need an NHS that works for them, to be able to get a doctor's appointment when they

00:47need it, to get the money they need in their pockets to pay their bills and to have a decent

00:51and better life.

00:52And I will keep on fighting for those people for as long as I've got breath in my body.

00:57I will also fight against extremes in politics, on the right and the left, parties who want to tear our

01:05country apart.

01:06The Labour Party is the only party that can knight our country and our communities.

01:13It looks like they're excused.

01:13Thanks for those ideas.

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