Labour failure to grow vote share points to tricky election, analyst warns

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour last increased its vote share in a district council election on 28 August. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty ImagesLabour has failed to increase its vote share in two dozen council byelections across the country stretching back more than two months, a polling analyst has said, indicating the potentially difficult task ahead for the party at the next general election.The last time Labour’s vote share rose was on 8 August, and since then the party has failed to mat