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By Election Woes

Doing what he does best and avoiding his responsibilities, Rishi Sunak managed to be busy on the day of a double by-election contesting two Tory safe seats yesterday. Perhaps he saw the writing on the wall, but the reality is still a shock. Labour managed to achieve the single greatest turnover of a majority in a by-election since 1945 in Mid Bedfordshire, previously held by Nadine ‘Dosser’ Dorries, while in Tamworth a similarly impressive 20,000 vote majority was overturned....

October 20, 2023 · 5 min · 903 words