Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Wellingborough and Kingswood byelections: it’s never been this bad for the Conservatives, and it could still get worse

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par Jonathan Tonge, Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool

Writing about Conservative byelection calamities has become something of a standard Friday practice for me. But the party’s defeat in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire was particularly brutal.

The Tory vote share was a mere 25% and the Conservative to Labour swing of 28.5% was the second biggest in modern electoral history. Only Dudley West in 1994, with a 29.1% swing, was bigger. That result was the…

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