LABOUR have comfortably won a by-election in the Greater Manchester area after securing nearly 70 per cent of the vote share.
Andrew Western won the Stretford and Urmston constituency, a safe Labour seat in Greater Manchester, with a majority of 9906, securing 69.65% of the votes - up 9.34% on the snap General Election three years ago, and with a 10.5% swing from the Tories to Labour.
Western, Labour’s leader of Trafford Council and now the new MP, said his victory showed people are fed-up with the Conservative Party and Labour is now ready to govern.