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Top story: âTheyâve voted for hopeâ
Good morning, Iâm Graham Russell and welcome to Friday and the stories making the news so far today.
Kim Leadbeater has been hailed as âbrilliant and braveâ by Labour leader Keir Starmer this morning after she defied glum predictions and won the Batley and Spen byelection. Labour beat the Tories by just over 300 votes, losing nearly all of its already-slender majority of 3,525 in the West Yorkshire seat that it has held since 1997.
Leadbeater said she was âabsolutely delighted that the people of Batley and Spen have rejected division and theyâve voted for hopeâ. Brendan Cox, the widower of Leadbeaterâs sister Jo Cox, who was murdered in 2016, tweeted: âWe are all incredibly proud of Kim Leadbeater today and Jo would have been too.â
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