Round up: Oldham West byelection (unexpectedly) returns a safe Labour majority…
PUNDITS DEBUNKED: Whatever Oldham West means to UK Labour’s warring factions, it will worry UKIP. UK Politics reverts to Lab v Con. And perhaps Nigel Farage’s rather intemperate comments will worry them even more so. His genius heretofore has been to play down the extreme end of his views.