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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Geraldine McKelvie Senior correspondent

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan

Labour supporters on an open-top campaign bus and a Green party supporter holding up a 'vote green' sign in Levenshulme
Labour and Green party supporters cross paths in Greater Manchester on the day of the byelection. Photograph: Jon Super/AP

The mayor of London has said the Gorton and Denton byelection has exposed a “far-reaching change and fracturing” in UK politics and Labour must ditch its “flawed strategy” of taking liberal progressives for granted.

In what appears to be an attack on Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan challenged the prime minister’s branding of the Green party and its policies as “extreme”, saying many of its supporters shared Labour’s values but were disappointed in the government.

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