The Latest Breaking News from Chester

The Labour Party has won the City of Chester by-election with 61.2% of the vote to the Conservatives’ 22.4%. That is a big victory and represents the Tories’ lowest share of the vote in the constituency since 1832. For context, this is a seat David Cameron’s party won in 2010.

Britain's opposition Labour Party scored a resounding victory in a vote for a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday, underlining the scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to win a general election in the next two years.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner visited Chester on Friday to celebrate the result of the by-election with the new MP, Samantha Dixon, who will now take up her seat two years out from the next general election. The party held on to the seat with a majority of 10,974, delivering…

The party held on to the City of Chester with a majority of 10,974, delivering a defeat to Rishi Sunak in his first electoral test as Prime Minister.