Party wins seat that includes financial district and much of central London for first time in its history
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The City of London has been the centre of a global empire and one of the great hubs of globalised finance. But a Labour constituency? Not for nearly a century.
Yet on Friday morning, under a grey pall of cloud and heavy rain, the Square Mile was coming to terms with a new Labour MP, Rachel Blake, as part of a landslide victory led by Keir Starmer.
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