A Labour Oxford
Those who read Luke’s blog will already know, but here’s the brief headlines from Oxford. (NB - I know it doesn’t fit the narrative, but we’re a south-east region city, with a hyper-marginal parliamentary seat).
Labour take the council, albeit one seat short of outright majority - 23 seats. Libs are decimated (okay, that’s not strictly accurate), Greens go from eight to six, Tories go from two (both defections) to zero. IWCA go from 4 to 2.
Labour are four up on where we were before - winning Marston, Blackbird Leys, Churchill (Wood Farm) and Quarry and Risinghurst. We were four (four!) votes short in Barton. Commiserations to Richard Stevens in Northfield Brook and Andy Lomas in Barton who should have been joining the Labour city council group, and worked incredibly hard for it.
I’m off to bed. Analysis in the morning, but I’m elated.
Update: Oxford Mail here. City council (minus full numbers) here.
