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| Local election results 2024 live: Sadiq Khan wins as London mayor with West Midlands vote close - BBC News | Local election results 2024 live: Sadiq Khan wins as London mayor with West Midlands vote close - BBC News |
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| The recount in the West Midlands mayoral race shows the Conservatives have done "extremely well" in "core Labour territory", local MP Andrew Mitchell says. | |
| Ballots are being counted again in Coventry, one of seven areas that make up the region, and the vote is believed to be close-run between Conservative incumbent Andy Street and Labour's Richard Parker. | |
| Mitchell, who represents the Birmingham seat | |
| of Sutton Coldfield, tells BBC News that “on any objective basis Labour would win this | |
| mayoralty by miles and miles”. | |
| “If Andy Street is | |
| even in contention here, that is a very good result for the Conservative Party,” he says. | |
| When it is put to him that the Conservative Party brand had not featured heavily in Street's campaign literature, Mitchell says many voted for him “because | |
| he was Andy Street and because he was a Conservative”. | |
| Asked whether he | |
| expects it to be a long night while recounts are carried out, he replies: “I | |
| think it may be”. | |
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