Sir Keir Starmer got cautioned last night that Labour is not likely to win an outright majority at the next election

After the party’s disappointing victory in Wakefield, Sir Keir Starmer was cautioned last night that Labour is not likely to win an outright majority at the next election.

According to a polling expert, the party’s victory in West Yorkshire yesterday was a cover for a lack of “enthusiasm” statewide.

With a swing of more than 12%, the party won back the historically Labour seat, marking its first victory in a by-election since Corby in Northamptonshire in 2012.

The result, according to Labour leader Sir Keir, put Britain “on course for a Labour government.”

However, Sir Keir only just exceeded the by-election swings made by his two successors, Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn, who were all soundly defeated in subsequent general elections.

Despite the Conservative Party’s political troubles in the face of the cost of living squeeze, pollster Sir John Curtice claimed that voters had not yet “bought into” Labour’s program.

“The Wakefield result does not reflect any tremendous enthusiasm for the Labour Party,” Sir John said on BBC Radio 4’s Today program.

However, according to election analyst Professor Michael Thrasher, Britain was “moving towards a hung parliament” at the next election, with Labour and the Lib Dems co-ruling.

The surge in the Labour vote is more than twice as large as the Conservative vote, and it appears that many Wakefield voters who were dissatisfied with the Conservatives voted for an independent candidate who was a former Conservative councillor who resigned in March in part because to Partygate.

He received over 7% of the vote, with the Conservatives likely contributing a significant portion of that.

How far people, many of whom are obviously dissatisfied with the Conservatives, have accepted Labour as an option still seems to be up for debate.

‘This puts us now totally on track for a Labour administration, which is certainly coming,’ Sir Keir maintained, calling the Wakefield win a ‘historic’ by-election outcome for his party.

“That tells you that the next administration is going to be a Labour government, and the sooner the better — because the country voted no confidence in this out-of-touch, out-of-ideas Government yesterday in both by-elections,” the statement reads.