UK Labour party loses parliamentary seat to left-wing Greens

Britain's ruling Labour party slumped to third-place finish as it lost to the left-wing Greens in a crunch local poll result on Friday.

The result in a seat that Labour has dominated for decades showed how the party is being squeezed by both ends of the political spectrum and is likely to increase chatter about how much longer Prime Minister Keir Starmer can stay in office. Labour won the constituency with almost 51 percent of the vote at the July 2024 general election that swept Starmer to power and ousted the Conservatives from 14 consecutive years in office.