The Prime Minister was left in no doubt at the anger at seeing his gamble backfire after voters deserted Labour for the Greens and Reform in Gorton and Denton.
In the most perilous moment yet of his premiership, Labour 's defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election shows the party has entered an 'electoral Valley of Death'.
Rayner said the disastrous result in the previously safe Labour seat of Gorton and Denton should serve as a 'wake-up call' for a party struggling to demonstrate 'the change that we promised'.
Reeling from a by-election calamity, one Labour MP predicts the governing party will “sit and do nothing until at least May," when another huge test looms.
Even by Keir Starmer's standards, the Chagos debacle has become an icon of incompetence. There is a fascinating whodunnit to be written about the imbroglio.