Hitting new lows: Tory rating at lowest level since Liz Truss
It has been a bruising week for the Conservative Party.
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Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
It has been a bruising week for the Conservative Party.
He said the Tories have relapsed due to the "collective failure of the Conservative Party to distance itself" from the former prime minister.
Ironically, Labour lost the by-election due to a protest over Sadiq Khan's environmental ULEZ policy.
A change to the way the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant is calculated has been introduced as the Crown Estate's profits soar above £1 billion.
The Tories held the seat with a majority of just 495, while Laurence Fox and Piers Corbyn couldn't even get 1,000 votes between them.
The failure to overturn the Tory majority in the seat was dubbed “Uloss” by a party insider.
Sarah Dyke secured victory in the Somerset seat.
A similar swing across the country would result in Labour winning more seats than in Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide, the party has claimed.
Her short spell in office sparked a meltdown in the financial markets and led to mortgage rates soaring.
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