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Five ministers would have lost seats if locals were a general election

New Statesman·Megan Kenyon·21 days ago
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Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images Three members of the cabinet would have lost their seats to Reform UK if a general election had been held on Thursday, according to new analysis. The same report also suggests that two other senior Labour MPs would have been unseated by the Green Party. The analysis, commissioned by Reform UK and seen by the New Statesman , shows that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Chief Whip Jonathan Reynolds would all have lost their constituencies to Reform. It also suggests that David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, would have lost their seats to the Greens. The findings were produced by comparing each constituency’s results from the 2024 general election with outcomes from the 2026 local elections.…

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