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Labour tops poll in Brent

Labour held on to first place in Brent in last Thursday’s European election.

Official figures supplied by the Returning Officer show Labour received 15,579 votes compared with 11,966 for the Tories and 11,364 for the Liberal Democrats. The Green party polled 4,999 votes and there were 4,862 votes for Tamil campaigner Jan Jananayagam. UKIP finished sixth in Brent with 3,239 votes. The neo-Nazi British National Party polled a paltry 1,251 votes – a 35 percent drop on the 1,918 votes they achieved in Brent in the London Assembly elections a year ago.

The Brent result represents a swing of 1.5 percent from Labour to Conservative, which is below the London average and considerably below the national average.

Labour’s vote held up better in London than anywhere else in the country and the BNP vote fell in London compared with last year’s Mayor and Assembly elections.

The Leader of Brent Council’s Labour Opposition, Councillor Ann M John, OBE, said:

“Of course I am pleased that Labour is still the first choice of Brent residents even in the most difficult of times. However, it is a matter of disgust that just two days after we commemorated D-Day, when our brave servicemen liberated Europe from Fascism, we hear that people in the North West and in Yorkshire and Humberside are sending Fascists to the European Parliament. Fortunately, the people of Brent and across London have once again rejected the fascist BNP and that is by far the most important aspect of the election result in London.”

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