Sir Keir Starmer urged Labour MPs to get behind his leadership with an appeal for them to embrace “the mainstream majority” as he tried to bounce back from last week’s humiliating by-election defeat.
On the day that the Green Party’s new MP Hannah Spencer was introduced into parliament after her historic victory in what had been Labour’s seventh safest seat of Gorton and Denton, Sir Keir addressed a meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) in a bid to rally support.
