Peterborough byelection result: Labour sees off Brexit party threat to hold seat

Labour’s Lisa Forbes says result shows ‘the politics of division will never win’

Labour has held on to the marginal seat of Peterborough despite predictions that the contest could deliver a first byelection victory to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.

As the UK’s main political parties struggle with how to enact the 2016 EU referendum, it was announced on Friday morning that the Labour candidate, Lisa Forbes, beat Mike Greene from the Brexit party by 683 votes. The Conservatives were beaten into third place with 7,243 votes.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2KwHNcd