By-election
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Swing when you’re winning What are the biggest UK by-election swings? — The 1983 Bermondsey by-election saw a 11,756 Labour…
The joy of Boris’s bungled by-election
By any reasonable standard the result in the North Shropshire by-election must be reckoned the funniest in years. Perhaps even…
It's time to take the Lib Dems seriously again
As far as seismic by-election results go, North Shropshire is one for the ages. The Tories had held onto the…
Could there be a Tory upset in North Shropshire?
As the government turns its attention to the new Covid variant, the ramifications of the Owen Paterson sleaze row are…
Could the Tories lose the South?
The coming Batley and Spen by-election — triggered by the incumbent MP’s election as the first mayor of West Yorkshire — is currently attracting a…
Why the Hartlepool election result doesn’t really matter
Ah, Hartlepool. The by-election there brings back memories: I am old enough to have reported on the last one, back…
Hartlepool and the theft of the Labour party
When the unthinkable happened in 1882 and England lost a test match on home soil to Australia there followed a…
The Northern Independence Party’s Hartlepool woes
Oh dear, it all seemed to be going so well for the ‘Northern Independence Party’, a Corbynite breakaway outfit standing…
