Double by-elections: Historic swing as Labour trounce the Tories

[-:Undertaker:-]

Double by-elections: Historic swing as Labour trounce the Tories

Tories lose two seats in one night with just over a year until the next General Election must be held

Tamworth parliamentary by-election, result:

LAB: 45.8% (+22.1)
CON: 40.7% (-25.7)
REF: 5.4% (+5.4)
UKIP: 1.7% (-0.1)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) October 20, 2023

Mid Bedfordshire parliamentary by-election, result:

LAB: 34.1% (+12.4)
CON: 31.1% (-28.6)
LDEM: 23.1% (+10.5)
IND: 4.6% (+3.3)
REF: 3.7% (+3.7)
GRN: 1.8% (-2.0)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) October 20, 2023

The huge wins for Labour in the by-elections overnight confirms what I have said before. The Tories are headed for a deserved electoral disaster.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) October 20, 2023

Losing Tamworth would have been bad enough for Rishi Sunak on its own. Losing Mid Beds as well is a catastrophe. The scale of the Tory vote collapse is unprecedented, even for a by-election.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) October 20, 2023

Dear Tory Party,

You are losing because you are wasting a majority and not actually delivering any Conservative policies. Small boats are a prime example. You are tinkering around the edges when you know it won't work.

All talk, no action.

— Steve Loftus (@LoftusSteve) October 20, 2023

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Letters of no confidence can be submitted in Tory leader Rishi Sunak from Wednesday, 12 months after he was appointed leader by MPs, under 1922 rules.

A Tory MP texts me: “Colleagues are in shock as they hoped the polls were wrong. Ominous silence in all MP WhatsApp groups.”

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) October 20, 2023

Hahaha.

Truly delightful that, for all his plotting and desperation to get into Number 10, Rishi Sunak is going to go down as a footnote in British history as one of the shortest serving Prime Ministers. So desperate to get into power for his career, only to get through that black front door and do absolutely nothing. He's a dud that we all saw coming a mile off, which is why he failed to win the Tory leadership contest with the membership.

At the next General Election I won't be voting but I will be sitting with some brandy, enjoying the sight as the useless Tories sink beneath the waves and the awful SNP take a hammering. It'll mean a Labour government of course, but we've already got a Labour government in all but name anyway. The country is up poo creek without a paddle either way, so may as well sit back and just laugh at this appalling political class who can't enforce the borders or even build a railway line.

My hope is that the Tories are so damaged that they are destroyed and replaced by a real National Party. IE Canada 1993.

Thoughts?

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🚨 | NEW: Around 20-25 letters of no confidence in Rishi Sunak have been submitted to Sir Graham Brady following the disastrous by-elections

[@ShippersUnbound]

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) October 21, 2023

Some letters starting to go in.

Believed that Sunak will wait until the latest now to call a GE - January 2025 - so god help us all as this useless government limps on.