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Analysis: Tories hit by turning political tide suffer two historic by-election losses in Mid-Beds and Tamworth

Historic swings from the Tories to Labour will alarm Conservative MPs

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2023

Labour success will send chill through spines of Tory MPs

Party’s ground troops stayed away and its voters stayed at home in two traditionally very Conservative areas

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023

Keir Starmer says double Labour byelections win shows people ‘fed up with 13 years of decline’ under Tories – as it happened

Labour wins Tamworth with swing of 23.9 percentage points from Tories, then Mid Bedfordshire in largest ever turnaround of majority in UK byelection

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023

Tories may lose election by 'more than Blair 1997 landslide' after Labour by-elections shock

Sir Keir Starmer’s party has overturned huge Conservative majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2023

Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth results: Key statistics and historical benchmarks

The result in Tamworth represents the biggest Conservative majority overturned by Labour at a by-election since 1945.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Tamworth’s new Labour MP calls for general election after by-election victory

Sarah Edwards’s victory represented the second highest ever swing to Labour.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Labour ‘redraw political map’ with double by-election blow to Rishi Sunak

Sir Keir Starmer’s party overturned huge Conservative majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Labour secure dramatic by-election victory in Tamworth

Sir Keir Starmer said it was a ‘phenomenal result’ and Labour was ‘redrawing the political map’.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Boost for Keir Starmer as Labour secures major by-election victory in Tamworth

In the Tories’ biggest loss to Labour in by-election history, Sir Keir’s party won the Staffordshire seat from the Conservatives

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Labour overturns huge Tory majority to win Tamworth byelection

Keir Starmer’s party takes back seat it lost to Tories in 2010, in win that will bolster its hopes of big victory in general election

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023