The victory in Wakefield demonstrates that Boris Johnson's 80-seat Commons majority, constructed largely from its gain of Labour's so-called 'red wall' seats, is vulnerable.
The victory in Wakefield demonstrates that Boris Johnson's 80-seat Commons majority, constructed largely from its gain of Labour's so-called"red wall" seats, is vulnerable.These were awful results for the Conservatives, among their worst by-election defeats since 1945.. The outcome there establishes a new record: the largest Conservative percentage majority overturned in a by-election.
The swing to the Liberal Democrats in Tiverton is 29.9%. Not the worst, with the catastrophe that was the Christchurch by-election still heading the list.But this latest result becomes the sixth-worst swing from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats and its predecessors in the post-war era. No one expects the Liberal Democrats to meet with the same success at the next general election, but it certainly appears that many have now forgiven the party for joining David Cameron's coalition government.
That is larger than what Tony Blair achieved in winning a landslide in 1997, and not far short of the Wakefield swing, which we should discount because it was a by-election.
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