Labour’s two by-election victories put the party in landslide territory
The Tories may now call an election as late as January 2025 as they bid to avoid one of the…
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Will “shy Labour” voters decide the Tamworth by-election?
Keir Starmer’s party overturning a Tory majority of nearly 20,000 would upset a major political trend in the Midlands.
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“Nadine Dorries is as much use as a chocolate fireplace”: on the Mid Bedfordshire doorstep
The seat has been Conservative for nearly a century – now, Labour and the Lib Dems are locked in a…
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Labour takes Rutherglen: the end of SNP domination?
What the result means for the next general election and Scottish independence.
Labour has finally ended the age of SNP hegemony
The party’s victory in the Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election is a turning point.
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Inside Labour’s battle for Scotland at the Rutherglen by-election
In central-belt suburbia, “austerity Labour” and the “sleazy SNP” fight for the future of Scottish politics.
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Ministers are on resignation watch as Rishi goes rogue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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Who can beat the Tories in Mid Bedfordshire?
Labour and the Lib Dems are fighting it out for who is best-placed to challenge for Nadine Dorries’s very Conservative…
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By-election special: Tory wipeout, interrupted
Our analysis of a frightful night for Rishi Sunak.
A progressive alliance would have won Uxbridge
The centre left needs a cross-party coalition to defeat the Tories and defend policies such as Ulez.
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Would Boris Johnson have won in Uxbridge?
The single issue of Ulez may not have been enough to offset the former PM’s negative polling.
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Triple by-election bonanza – as it happened
The Tories have lost two of the three by-elections but retained Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
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Most Tory MPs will be terrified by the by-election results
Victory in Uxbridge does not compensate for the dramatic anti-government mood elsewhere in the country.
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The by-elections were a warning to Sunak – and Starmer
Uxbridge shows that Labour has not yet sealed the deal with the public.
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The Tories can take little consolation from their Uxbridge victory
For Rishi Sunak, the national picture remains unremittingly grim.
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Will the Lib Dems sweep away the Tories in Somerton and Frome?
In the South West, tactical voters and disillusioned Conservatives are boosting Ed Davey’s party.
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Why by-election defeats would benefit Sunak
The PM’s Conservative rivals won’t want to lead a doomed party.
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What could go wrong for Keir Starmer?
The burden of being the frontrunner to be the next prime minister is starting to show.
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Local Conservative clubs are still clamouring for reckless right-wingers
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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