
The Conservative Party has just experienced three shocking losses. The first came in the hitherto safe seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, where the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 majority.
The second was in the red wall seat of Wakefield, as Labour regained the constituency it had lost in 2019 with a swing of 12.7 per cent, which if replicated at a general election, would deliver Sir Keir Starmer an overall majority.