Reaction floods in to Tories’ devastating double by-election loss
'Bluntly, this is a total nightmare'
'Bluntly, this is a total nightmare'
"For a while now it’s been clear there’s a possibility of a Conservative wipe-out at the next election and a Labour wave", Lewis Goodall said.
Sarah Edwards’s victory represented the second highest ever swing to Labour.
The Conservative candidate for Tamworth had earlier defended a flowchart telling families using food banks to "f*** off".
Sir Keir Starmer’s party overturned huge Conservative majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.
The party overturned a Conservative majority of 24,664 votes.
Sir Keir Starmer said it was a ‘phenomenal result’ and Labour was ‘redrawing the political map’.
A memo to Greg Hands has been leaked outlining concerns that the party's vote share could halve in both seats.
The result was a huge victory for Donald Tusk, the head of the largest opposition group, Civic Coalition.
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