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By—election. at the other end of it it will be even worse. a, of it it will be even worse. a traditionally safe conservative seat as you mentioned, pro brexit, generally an older population. you have been in the region. why this swing? when we get the full results we can have a better idea of its ugly what has happened to the conservative vote. when knew what was being rather suppressed, we knew that from the bexley by—election from a couple of weeks ago. the governing parties traditionally don't do so well in the by—election. the circumstances of this election as i say were very difficu...

Defeat. normally we wouldn't cover by-elections, but why do you think this is so important here? >> reporter: yes. i never thought that on international news we'd need to talk about a by-election, but we are doing that because this is an indication of what boris johnson's credibility is like, his authority is like, his power and his ability right now because this was a conservative seat that's been held by the party for 200 years. and yesterday in a shock election, it went to a liberal democratic candidate that won by 6,000 -- nearly 6,000 seats. they used to have in the last election a 25,000...

Know her at all, _ kind of mpc will be? i don't know her at all, but - kind of mpc will be? i don't know her at all, but i - kind of mpc will be? i don't know her at all, but i think| kind of mpc will be? i don'tl know her at all, but i think it has been clear in this campaign that she is local, she is a chartered accountant, she is committed to the area. she actually stood in the last general election with a10% vote. it is a sign, a real kind of ability to need a ground walker with support from party hq to just get out there and persuade the voters that even though this is a historically blue...

Important stop think the other thing that he will have to think about is a question around what is the actual policy response to this, because if we looked at the chesham and amersham election result there are clearly issues around planning reform that the government hasn't acted upon. this seems quite different in terms of a very long held conservative seat in a leave voting area of the country, i think the government will struggle to identify any issues that they can quickly turn around and in the absence of that, taking personal responsibility and showing more contrition will be even more i...

Safest conservative seats. we can speak to our political correspondent pete saull. we can see the liberal democrats with their posters behind you. what are they planning to mark the victory? are they planning to mark the victo ? , ., ., ., ., ., victory? they are going to have a rally shortly. _ victory? they are going to have a rally shortly, this _ victory? they are going to have a rally shortly, this is _ victory? they are going to have a rally shortly, this is a _ victory? they are going to have a rally shortly, this is a local- rally shortly, this is a local activist, we are in the larges...