How the left fared in the UK election and where they go from here

Independents win votes over Gaza and Greens add MPs but left wing parliamentary hopes may rest on Labour failure

• General election 2024 – live

Despite Jeremy Corbyn’s surprisingly comfortable victory in Islington North, Thursday’s general election did not look, at first sight, like a good result for that sector of the Labour party – the hard left – to whom he remains a hero.

So large was Keir Starmer’s parliamentary majority that any hope of a caucus of leftwing MPs leveraging power was crushed underfoot by the stampede of new Starmer-friendly MPs.