The health secretary has compared the collapse of Labour's vote in the Caerphilly by-election to the party's defeat in Hartlepool in 2021 - when Sir Keir Starmer considered resigning as leader.

Wes Streeting described the party's performance in the Senedd seat - where it took just 3,713 votes - as "terrible" and said it had to match Labour's response to the Hartlepool by-election defeat.

Politics latest: UK in 'despair', warns Streeting

Image: Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle was elected to represent his hometown of Caerphilly. Pic: PA

Speaking to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips , Mr Streeting said the loss of Hartlepool to the Tories while the party was in opposition was a "shock to Labour's core" and prompted Sir Keir to "change the Labour Party with a pace and scale of am

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