Tories tighten grip ELECTION RESULTS ROUND-UP TAMWORTH: Conservatives take three more seats on borough councilGurdip Thandi
The seismic result has seen the party of Sir Keir Starmer overturn a huge 25,000 majority in a seat that has been held by the Tories since 1931. It is Labour's second win in a night of double by-elections,after also taking the Conservative stronghold of Tamworth. The tense battle for ...
The Tamworth by-election defeatis the second biggest Tory to Labour swing since 1945, and setting a record by overturning the 66% Tory majority at the last election. To put it another way, no governing party has lost a seat as safe as Tamworth. Mid Bedfordshi...
So Jim, Miranda, there are a wealth of statistics showing what a sort of significant event this is in the Tamworth by-election. It was a 23.9 per cent swing to Labour, the second biggest swing to Labour in a by-election ever. Meanwhile, in Mid Bedfordshire, Labour broke the record for...
The by-election results last week suggest that the voters are worried about the cost of living crisis and poor standards of government. Most seem to have put Brexit to one side. Tamworth, like most of the Midlands, voted heavily to leave the EU. ...