Dewsbury, Mirfield, Batley and Spen voters took to the polls yesterday to choose which councillors they want representing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been sensational by-election victories in the past. The first Liberal win in a safe Conservative seat in Orpington in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labour remains in an awful mess, just as it would be if it had lost by 323 votes rather than scraping in by that amount.

There are few immediate similarities between the Al-Hikmah Centre in Batley and the Ward Jackson Wetherspoon pub in Hartlepool. But ask people at this Muslim welfare charity about politics this ...

Labour confounded expectations and held on to its Batley and Spen constituency. Kim Leadbeater, sister of murdered former MP Jo Cox, won by the slender margin of just 323 votes. Many believed that the ...

Following Tracy Brabin’s election as the first mayor of West Yorkshire, the Labour seat for the constituency of Batley and Spen has opened up. Kim Leadbeater has confirmed that she will stand for the ...

The bookmakers, the pundits, the pollsters and - privately - many Labour MPs, all assumed Kim Leadbeater was headed for defeat in Batley and Spen. Despite her extraordinary campaigns against ...

Kim Leadbeater said she would represent the area where she was "born and bred" A West Yorkshire MP has said she will ignore advice to fight for the safest of two parliamentary seats when her ...

The Batley and Spen by-election was one of the most keenly anticipated for years, with speculation swirling around a possible challenge to Sir Keir Starmer's leadership on the assumption that Labour ...

The bookmakers, the pundits, the pollsters and - privately - many Labour MPs, all assumed Kim Leadbeater was headed for defeat in Batley and Spen. Despite her extraordinary campaigns against ...

A West Yorkshire MP has said she will ignore advice to fight for the safest of two parliamentary seats when her constituency is split up. Kim Leadbeater, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, said she was ...