Labour wins big in UK by-elections

While the ruling Conservatives fell to the last place at polls, the Labour candidate managed to take her party from nowhere to victory at Chapel St Leonards. The Conservatives were a close second in the 2011 main polls.

Liberal Democrats, junior party to the UK’s first coalition government since World War II, managed to keep seats at Oakfield, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire and Halcon, Taunton Deane Borough, Somerset.

The results are welcome to them as they enter the race for the next general election in 2015 and give them hope of holding some of their existing strongholds, irrespective of how they do elsewhere.

It came as UK Independence Party (Ukip) finished runner-up in three out of this week’s four contests. However at Taunton Deane its vote share was 2.8 percent down compared with another by-election on 2 May.

The Labour party’s win can be considered as a blow to the coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron as he and his team move forward by implementing their unpopular austerity policy, which according to experts, is widening the gap between poor and rich in the country.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/04/327586/labour/

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