UK Labour Head Starmer: Party Will Be ‘Fighting Every Vote’ on 6 May Local Elections

LONDON (Sputnik) – UK Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, said on Tuesday that his party was “fighting every vote” in the local elections to be held across the United Kingdom later in the week.

The 6 May elections, which has been dubbed as “Super Thursday”, will be a crucial test for Starmer, who became leader of the Labour Party in April 2020, following its crushing defeat in the 2019 general elections.

On Thursday, UK citizens will vote for 143 councils, 13 mayors, including London’s, two regional parliaments, 39 police commissioners and the new representative to the UK Parliament from the English constituency of Hartlepool.

A supporter of the Labour Party leaves a polling station in London after voting the United Kingdom general election of 2017

Besides expectations to see how many councils and mayorships Labour can win or retain, all eyes will be set in the Hartlepool by-election to choose the new lawmaker that will represent the constituency in the House of Commons.

According to a Survation poll commissioned by ITV’s Good Morning Britain, the governing Conservative Party is leading vote intention by 17 points in Hartlepool, a traditional Labour stronghold.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, the National Scottish Party will be hoping to win an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament that would pave the way for them to push for a new independence referendum.

In London, Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan will be struggling to keep his seat amid criticism for his failure to tackle the knife crime wave in the UK capital city.

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