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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jasper Jolly and Mahliqa Ali

‘We needed change’: mixed feelings in City after Labour sweeps London

Collage of shape of London in red, with dragon and skyline in foreground
The City of London has elected a Labour MP, Rachel Blake, for the first time in nearly a century. Composite: Guardian Desgn/Getty Images

The City of London has been the centre of a global empire and one of the great hubs of globalised finance. But a Labour constituency? Not for nearly a century.

Yet on Friday morning, under a grey pall of cloud and heavy rain, the Square Mile was coming to terms with a new Labour MP, Rachel Blake, as part of a landslide victory led by Keir Starmer.

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