In the Manchester Suite in the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand at Old Trafford, his reds won a resounding victory over their opponents in blue. No need for 'Fergie time', the 'hairdryer treatment' or 'squeaky bum time' on this occasion. This victory was a stroll for the Labour Party.
But the by-election result, declared at about 2.45am, was always going to be a comfortable win for Sir Alex's reds. Labour was defending a majority of more than 16,000 won by former MP Kate Green at the 2019 general election.Next month she becomes one of the deputies to Greater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham, an Evertonian, as Sir Alex is no doubt well aware.In 2019, Ms Green won just over 60% of the vote and the Tories 27.5%. But that was on a turnout of nearly 70%.
That meant the significance of the result was all about share of the vote, not the majority, although having said that the Labour majority was still just under 10,000. And what cheered up Labour even more was the slump in the Tories' share to less than 16%. That's relegation form.The turnout was 25.8% with Andrew Western securing 69.65% of the votes - up 9.34% on the general election in 2019
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