Tory spin doctors are hard at work at the moment. The Conservatives were crushed in the Kingswood and Wellingborough by-elections, with the swing to Labour in Wellingborough making history as the second biggest since WWII. But a party spokesman gave a sanguine view of it all. “The Government of the day rarely win by-elections,” they reasoned. “Both of these seats have been Labour recently and they require smaller swings than were seen in recent by-elections.”
