Independents win votes over Gaza and Greens add MPs but left wing parliamentary hopes may rest on Labour failure
• General election 2024 – live
Despite Jeremy Corbyn’s surprisingly comfortable victory in Islington North, Thursday’s general election did not look, at first sight, like a good result for that sector of the Labour party – the hard left – to whom he remains a hero.
So large was Keir Starmer’s parliamentary majority that any hope of a caucus of leftwing MPs leveraging power was crushed underfoot by the stampede of new Starmer-friendly MPs.