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Labour leader Starmer lives to fight another day after byelection win

London | British Labour leader Keir Starmer looks to have headed off a potential leadership spill after narrowly winning a hotly contested byelection in the north of England.

Expectations had been growing that his disaffected deputy Angela Rayner might challenge his embattled leadership of the party if he lost a second “Red Wall” seat in almost as many months.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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