Why have the Tories collapsed in the last ten by-elections? | LBC reaction
February 16, 2024
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as posted by the channelRishi Sunak bemoaned low voter turnout after the Conservatives endured a double by-election disaster last night.
The PM put on a brave face as he warned that voting reform would only "put Keir Starmer in power" after Labour seized the previously Tory safe seats of Welingborough and Kingswood.
In Wellingborough, Gen Kitchen turned a Conservative majority of more than 18,500 in Wellingborough into a Labour one of 6,436 while in Kingswood former Lewisham mayor Damien Egan secured a majority of 2,501 after overturning the 11,220 Conservative majority.
Senior Conservatives highlighted the scale of the collapse in the party's support - bigger than the swing to Labour - and sounded alarm at surges by Reform UK.
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