Labour's @kimleadbeater holds #BatleyAndSpen by 300+ votes despite 8000 lost to Galloway. “Our voters turned out in droves” official tells me. This was a triumph for @ShabanaMahmood and @HollyLynch5 . They led a fightback. 1/
2/ In #BatleyAndSpen Labour was winning back working class Tory voters from 2019; with a local agenda, a strong local candidate - but losing socially-conservative Muslim voters over Palestine and homophobia...
3/ Keir Starmer still has huge questions to answer. All the bad decisions that put the seat in jeopardy were taken in his office. He had to keep a low profile to achieve this, which is not ideal...
4/ Labour learned to fight back, not just count votes. The machine, led by two young female MPs, turned into a learning organism. Activists were doing deep persuasion, not just vote counting - and it worked against Galloway...
5/ Make no mistake, over the past week Labour has whittled Galloway's support back using WhatsApp, social media, face to face persuasion and intense activism... all the "left" media types who backed him are shown up as clowns...
6/ Ignore the "Labour should have run away with this" argument. They would have, if the leadership had not alienated Muslim voters over Gaza/Al-Aqsa... and the 6k pro-Brexit independent vote I suspect stayed at home... which is a result... finally
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