Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the by-election win in Selby and Ainsty proves the party can now "win in areas that we really wouldn't have had a chance to win in before" after overturning a 20,000 Tory majority, Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 With no double speak on it, in my political life, these people, you're not frightened
00:08 to stand the other side of it.
00:11 Part of the work we've done in the last three years is to change the Labour Party.
00:14 Oh I think what these by-elections show is, if you take Selby, that the Labour Party has
00:20 changed and we're now able to win in areas that we really wouldn't have had a chance
00:25 to win in before.
00:26 In Selby it was an incredible result, overturning a 20,000 majority.
00:30 That's never been done in the history of the Labour Party before.
00:33 Obviously Uxbridge was a disappointment so we're reflecting on that, but we're pushing
00:38 on.
00:39 I'm at West Bedford now talking to Ken, a local resident who's very fed up with the
00:43 Tories.
00:44 He says he describes himself as a disillusioned Tory.
00:47 So we're going on, there should be a by-election here in mid Bedfordshire, so we're pressing
00:52 on.
00:53 We passed those by-elections last week, we're pressing on to speak to voters and to make
00:59 sure that we can continue on that journey towards a general election.
01:02 I'm going to walk up the side where we land.
01:09 Lovely old street, five minutes.
01:12 Yeah, exactly.
01:13 It's quite long.
01:14 Should I?
01:15 Yeah.
01:16 Is there a new build?
01:17 Yeah.
01:18 I'll come with you.
01:19 Keep an eye out.
01:20 Yeah.
01:21 I think it's great.
01:22 It's appropriate height.
01:23 The appropriate height.
01:24 We keep saying that Parliament's definitely changed to Ireland, but we hear that too.
01:25 We want essentially a decision to be made, we want to know what's happening.
01:46 Because there are so many issues that just don't need raising.
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