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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm, Political Editor

UNCOVERED: Desperate tories left in disarray as labour celebrates seismic swing - The Untold Story

Sadiq Khan makes a speech as he is re-elected for a record third time as mayor of London on Saturday.
Sadiq Khan makes a speech as he is re-elected for a record third time as mayor of London on Saturday. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

Keir Starmer was advised by his team to get an early night on Thursday before the first election results started to come through at dawn the next day.

They booked the Labour leader into a hotel at a secret location in the north-west, so he could be bright and breezy when celebrating an anticipated parliamentary byelection win in Blackpool South.

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