Birmingham Erdington by-election: Labour survives four storms and an earthquake - but there's a little tremor from the left

Labour may have avoided a by-election catastrophe, but one post script of this by-election is that the old left isn't dead, Sky's Jon Craig reports

In a performance that will cheer up all veteran left-wing comrades and Starmer critics, the former Militant Tendency MP Dave Nellist, standing here for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, came third, ahead of the Lib Dems, Greens and Reform UK.

Again, not an earthquake, obviously. But a little tremor from the left as Sir Keir breathes a sigh of relief this morning that his Labour Party survived the real storms and some concerns about a possible Ukraine boost for the PM - and, in the end, won here fairly comfortably.

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