Labour has won the battle for West Midlands mayor which went down to the wire and was secured by just over 1,500 votes. The knife-edge win by Labour's candidate Richard Parker dashed incumbent Tory Andy Street's hopes of securing a third term and delivered a major blow to Rishi Sunak in the key electoral battleground after a hammering in the local elections.
' The West Midlands loss threatens to ramp back up the pressure on the prime minister, who hoped to repeat of the success enjoyed by Conservative Ben Houchen who held on as the mayor of Tees Valley in the face of an otherwise appalling set of results, which saw Labour win the Blackpool South by-election on a swing of 26% from the Tories.
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