Labour has overturned huge majorities in two Tory strongholds: voters in Mid Bedfordshire have decided they want an MP for whom the seat isn’t merely a platform for a TV career, and the people of Tamworth have turned down the opportunity to be represented by someone who makes crass jokes about hungry children.
Calls for a general election sooner than the last possible moment (January 2025) will now increase, and are likely to be ignored, because the Conservatives will want as much time as possible to deliver on targets such as reducing inflation (see here for a full explanation). We’re going to hear a lot about Rishi Sunak’s “zombie government”.
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