After three marathon byelection campaigns culminated with party activists pulling an all-nighter under the unforgiving lights of a vast hall, the first thing on most campaigners’ minds – now the counts are completed – is sleep.
But it will not take long for the postmortems to be carried out in the headquarters of Britain’s three biggest political parties. The pace of politics is relentless, and strategists know there are at least two more possible byelections on the horizon – in Nadine Dorries’ Mid-Bedfordshire seat and Chris Pincher’s in Tamworth.
