LondonLabour held Starmer’s old seat with 45% of the vote.
Sagal Abdi-Wali, a Somali-born former child refugee, now holds one of Britain’s most watched seats.
Green leader Zack Polanski took 33%, the party’s second-best Westminster by-election result, a big swing since the general election.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham still faces a sluggish economy and rising bond yields from the war with Iran.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide
- BBC
- frames the by-election as a relief result for Downing Street and the Greens' second-best Westminster by-election showing
- The New York Times
- casts the win as a test of Burnham's Labour leadership, linking Abdi-Wali's priorities to his conference speech
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames Polanski's Green challenge as the test of whether Burnham can recover Labour's left-wing voters after Gaza
Sources: BBC, The New York Times, Al Jazeera Online