The first result was the second-highest ever by-election swing to Labour. Just half-an-hour later, there was even better news for Sir Keir
Labour has dealt a double by-election blow to Rishi Sunak by overturning huge Tory majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire. Sir Keir Starmer claimed Labour was “redrawing the political map” by taking seats which had been comfortably Conservative ahead of the general election expected next year.
The Tories had held Mid Bedfordshire since 1931, with a 24,664 Conservative majority in 2019. But Alistair Strathern took the seat with a majority of 1,192 over his Tory rival Festus Akinbusoye, with a swing of 20.5 percentage points to Labour. Mr Strathern said his victory showed “nowhere is off limits for this Labour Party” while Ms Edwards challenged the Prime Minister to call a general election. My message to the Prime Minister is get in your government car, drive to Buckingham Palace, do the decent thing and call a general election,” she said.
But elections expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the two results were “extremely bad news” for the Conservatives and suggested Mr Sunak was on course for general election defeat. “This isn’t destiny, but it is a pointer and it is a pointer that, unless the Conservatives can fairly dramatically and fairly radically turn things around, then they are in truth staring defeat in the face in 12 months’ time.
He added that the Tories “may get caught in a pincer movement between some of their former Leave voters wandering off to Labour but others going off to Reform UK”. The Tamworth result echoes Labour’s victory in a by-election in its predecessor constituency South East Staffordshire in 1996. “I’m not looking for academic arguments about issues that are not going to swing voters. I’m looking for serious, grown-up approaches to the issues that really matter – on the economy, on housing, on the future for our young people. “We’ve got some good Conservative answers to these issues. Let’s hear them and let’s hear nothing else in the next 12 months.”
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