Portsmouth News

Great victory

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Your choice of headline for your report of the election to Havant Borough Council was curious.

You led on the Conservati­ves ‘gaining two new seats’. Factually that is debatable, given that the 'independen­t' displaced from one of those seats was elected as a Conservati­ve. But surely the story of this election was not that at all, but the extraordin­ary and unpreceden­ted storming to victory in St Faith’s ward of the Labour candidate. St Faith’s has been an ultra-safe Conservati­ve seat since... well, forever. But Phil Munday not only won here for Labour , he won decisively, receiving more votes than the other three candidates put together, and now has the one of largest majorities of any councillor in the borough. If that isn't a political story worth reporting on, I don't know what is!

Graham Noble Waterloo Road Havant

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