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3.42pm BST

Labour is coming home" after the party narrowly held on to Batley and Spen in a sometimes brutal byelection, Keir Starmer has said, arguing that voters were starting to see through the government's politics of misinformation".

It is a start. Labour is back. Labour is coming home," the party leader told cheering activists in the West Yorkshire constituency, standing next to Kim Leadbeater, who won the seat over the Conservatives by just 323 votes.

Related: Starmer hails Labour revival after Kim Leadbeater wins Batley and Spen

3.08pm BST

I've got a bloody long list here, lads," said Kim Leadbeater as she bounded away from a voter in the early days of the Batley and Spen byelection campaign.

On this occasion, parking was the issue that Leadbeater had added to her little notebook of voters' complaints. As a local resident, she quickly grasped the issues often overlooked in the national narrative.

Related: Kim Leadbeater: political novice who will not toe the line in Westminster