'No sugar-coating' recent election results, Powell says in plea for unions' by-election support

Powell announces that she has been asked to be Labour's political lead on the upcoming Makerfield by-election, and asks for the support of unions as the party seeks a win. The Labour deputy leader says there is "no sugarcoating" the recent local election results, which she says "has been coming for a few years". "We might have lost more seats to Reform," Powell says, "but we've actually lost a lot more voters to parties to our left." People have voted time