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Hello, it's Adam Westminster at about 630 on Friday morning,

and Labour have won the Batley and Spen bio-election, just.

And here is the victory speech of the new Labour MP

for Batley and Spen, Kim Ledbeter.

I think the campaign has highlighted

that there's lots to do.

But I'm going to crack on with it and I will do my very best to represent

the whole of Batley and Spen as their new MP. I'm absolutely delighted that the people of

Batsley and Spen have rejected division and they voted for hope.

Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Now this result packs a bit of an emotional punch

because Kim is the sister of Joe Cox, the

Labour MP who used to hold this seat and who was murdered in 2016.

It will also be a huge sigh of relief for Kirstarma because he would have been facing a probably quite a serious crisis in his leadership if Labour had lost

But the Tories are framing this not as a labor victory, but as a labor hold. In other words, this is a sort of place they should be doing much

better if they've got any chance of being the next government.

And of course the whole thing was complicated by the presence of George Galloway standing for the

Workers Party who got about 8,000 votes, which is actually quite a lot.

And of course the presence of George Galloway and just all the pressure and the history and the media and the emotion meant that this was quite a tense by election and me

Laura and Chris sat down to discuss some of the bigger implications and themes of it last night

with the Shadow International Trade Secretary Emily Thornbury.

Newscast.

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