The results echoed Labour’s victory in a 1996 by-election that preceded Tony Blair’s 1997 general election landslide
Keir Starmer, the leader of the British Labour Party, said his party had “made history” with its two by-election victories over the Conservatives. Labour candidates overturned huge Tory majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire to take the seats.
Sir Keir claimed Labour was “redrawing the political map” by taking seats which had been comfortably Conservative ahead of a British general election expected next year. The Tories had held Mid Bedfordshire since 1931, with a 24,664 Conservative majority in 2019. But Alastair Strathern took the seat with a majority of 1,192 over his Tory rival Festus Akinbusoye, with a swing of 20.5 percentage points to Labour.
In Tamworth, Chris Pincher resigned after being found to have drunkenly groped two men in an “egregious case of sexual misconduct” at London’s exclusive Carlton Club last year, an incident which helped trigger Boris Johnson’s exit from 10 Downing Street because of his handling of the situation.
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