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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Yes, low turnouts as usual now in by-elections.
However they are wins.
Had the Cons held these seats even narrowly on the low turnouts.
The headlines would be, even on a low turnout Cons ward off Labour challenges likely.

Now it's being said, if Reform hadn't stood then the Cons would have won.

Nonsense, that's an assumption that every vote that went to Reform , that all went out still to vote at all but every vote then going to the Cons.

These by- elections are confirming and more, the current national polling.
That's virtually all that can be drawn from them.

A horrendous pair of results for the Cons.
Horrendous.

apparently Tamworth was the second biggest swing to Labour in byelection history. That's quite something.

And Nadine Dorries is probably getting on with her day as per usual, no change at all there