The British Conservative Party, in the early hours of this sixth fair, faced two electoral defeats that strengthened the hypothesis of a landslide victory for the Labor Party in the 2024 legislative elections, and this could further weaken the leadership of the prime minister, Rishi. Sunak.
I also tend to realize that this is the reason for holding additional elections – by-electionin its original name, to prioritize the positions of deputies in the lazy British Parliament between regular elections -, because the defeat of two Conservatives in the electoral circle of Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth was seen as a political earthquake for the Conservatives.
Em Mid Bedfordshire, where the Conservative Party had not lost an election since 1931 – and where the Labor Party had not won since the formation of the circle, in 1918 – the Labor candidate, Alistair Strathern, defeated the Conservative leader by a winning 24,664 votes. elections in 2019 and achieved the highest victory ever by-election since 1945.
Além remembers, for the victory of two workers in Mid Bedfordshire is important because it ousts the Conservative Party from power (or their direct opponents at the 2024 election), and because it does so despite a strong candidacy from the Liberal Democrat Party, which, according to some analysts, could help the Conservative Party. Party venue or venue.
According to John Curtice, professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and one of the UK’s two most influential election specialists, the results of this sixth fair – which combines a series of Labor winners last year in additional elections – points to the possibility of a landslide Labor victory in 2024, perhaps even more significant than Tony Blair’s first election in 1997.
“There have been some spectacular wins in the Scottish National Party or the Libertarian Democratic Party wins, but what is so special about these wins? by-election This is the ganhos forum that the main opposition party is getting. “This is rare,” Curtice told the BBC.
“There are exceptions in the opposition,” sublinhou or specialists. “This is the last time this happens, the Government suffers a major defeat.”
Tamworth Circle, where the MP’s seat has been held by the Conservative Party’s Chris Pincher since 2010, saw Labor Party worker Sarah Edwards beat her main opponent, Andrew Cooper, by a margin of 1,316 votes — after Pincher was elected, in 2019, by almost 20 votes. his enemy was working at height.
“There is now a belief, in this new Labor Party, that it is possible to win elections in every county we have never won,” the party leader, Keir Starmer, said in a statement on the election results in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.
On the conservative side, the party’s president, Greg Hands, acknowledged that the election results were “disappointing”, more difficult given the peculiarities of the by-election, that there was a high rate of abstentions and particular problems for two candidates. which leaves the place unclear.
In Tamworth’s case, the election was held following the resignation of Chris Pincher, in September. This conservative politician was at the center of a wave of defiance against the British Government, in the summer of 2022, which would lead to the ouster of the then prime minister, Boris Johnson; At this point, it emerged that Johnson was aware of the sexual harassment allegations against Pincher when he was appointed deputy leader of the parliamentary bench.
Or place Mid Bedfordshire vacated in August following the sacking of the Conservative Party’s Nadine Dorries, in office since 2005, and dissatisfaction with the fact her entry into the Chamber of Lords, proposed by Johnson, was not retained by Sunak.
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