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Residents in the safe seat of Wellingborough and Rushden express buyer’s remorse over the Conservative government

Huge by-election swings to Labour raise parallels with Blair in 1997 but these are very different times.

Relations have soured after the Lib Dems refused to step back from the Mid Beds contest, and were accused of highly personal attacks on Labours candidate.

If the 20 percentage-point swings to Labour seen in four recent by-elections were repeated in a national poll next year, that would mean a comfortable Labour majority for Sir Keir Starmer.

Sunak and the Tories may never recover

Footage showed Mid Beds hopeful Festus Akinbusoye and Tamworth candidate Andrew Cooper bolting from the count as soon as their losses were announced.

Historic defeats in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth prompt claims Number 10's attempts to drag net zero into the 'culture war' have failed

Several of the main questions to be settled next year crystalised in last nights by-elections, where Labour kicked down the doors of more true-blue strongholds.

Britain's ruling Conservative Party suffered major defeats Friday in two local elections in England to replace MPs who had stood down.

Labour gained Mid Beds, which was vacated this summer by former Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries, for the first time in the constituencys century-long history.