Left-wing plumber wins UK parliament race | BreakThrough News

“We defeated the parties of billionaire donors.” In a stunning blow to the leadership of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a rising far-right, Green Party candidate and plumber Hannah Spencer was elected to Parliament in a critical district in Manchester on Friday. Spencer harnessed public anger at rising cost-of-living to win a seat dominated by Labour for decades, and in her victory speech criticized "divisive figures" who "scapegoated" vulnerable communities while working people were "bled dry." The special election was seen as a three-way race between the left-wing Green Party, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour Party, and the far-right Reform UK party.

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