On Thursday, June 18, Brits went to the polls in what – if it were not for the current political maelstrom – would be a rather uneventful by-election. Makerfield, a small constituency near Manchester, delivered a verdict that is the epicenter of a coming earthquake.
Labour candidate (and now former mayor of Greater Manchester) Andy Burnham won a landslide victory, hitting 55%. Surely this is a cause for celebration for Prime Minister Keir Starmer? After all, his party’s candidate held out against a strong showing from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party that reached just 35%. However, this was no normal election, and the stakes were far from pedestrian.
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