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The Duran Podcast

UK Greens win big. Labour and Starmer suffer big defeat

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4.5738 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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UK Greens win big. Labour and Starmer suffer big defeat


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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the by-election in the UK and the rise of the Greens.

0:10.1

40% was their margin of, that was the vote that they got.

0:15.8

Their victory over labor, I believe, was at 22% or 20%?

0:21.0

Yeah.

0:21.5

Number two was reform.

0:24.0

Yes.

0:25.3

Very bad showing for labor.

0:27.6

And the Tories got completely demolished.

0:30.6

The Tories got, the conservatives got completely demolished.

0:33.6

The conservatives got completely demolished and the liberals were nowhere at all.

0:39.1

So, I mean, this is very important and it's an aspect of this election that very, very few people are talking about.

0:47.0

I mean, since as long as anybody can remember, since the beginning of the 20th century,

0:53.6

Rooton has had three dominant parties,

0:56.1

Labour, Conservative, Liberal. Usually, if we have a situation where there's a Labour government

1:02.8

and it's unpopular, there's a swing to the Conservatives. If there's a Conservative government,

1:08.4

which is unpopular, there is a swing to labour. If both parties are unpopular,

1:17.5

which does happen or has happened from time to time, quite often, actually, then there is a swing

1:23.2

to the Liberals. But they are the three parties taken together that make up the British establishment.

1:30.3

I think I'm right in saying that for the first time in modern British electoral history,

1:37.3

at least since the Second World War, we've had a situation where in a by-election in England, in England specifically,

1:48.5

neither of the two big parties, Labour or Conservative, came in at number two.

1:55.2

So the entire British political class, the entire spectrum of parties that make up the British political class

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