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Analysis: Tories hit by turning political tide suffer two historic by-election losses in Mid-Beds and Tamworth

Historic swings from the Tories to Labour will alarm Conservative MPs

Evening Standard

Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-election results: Key statistics and historical benchmarks

The result in Tamworth represents the biggest Conservative majority overturned by Labour at a by-election since 1945

Evening Standard

Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth results: Key statistics and historical benchmarks

The result in Tamworth represents the biggest Conservative majority overturned by Labour at a by-election since 1945.

The Independent UK

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Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections: Key statistics

Conservative MPs have held the seat of Mid-Bedfordshire continuously since 1931.

The Independent UK

Byelection spending suggests tacit Labour and Lib Dems deal on fighting Tory-held seats

Figures released before Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire contests hint at opposition parties making space for each other

The Guardian - UK

The Labour donors: from Tory defectors to a supermarket scion

With Labour heading into election year ahead in the polls, who are the individuals funding its upcoming campaign?

The Guardian - UK

Rutherglen & Hamilton West result: Key statistics and historical benchmarks

The result is one of the largest-ever swings at a Westminster by-election in Scotland where a seat has changed hands.

The Independent UK

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Party conference season is here – but decades of polling evidence suggests these events barely move the dial

From late September to early October, the UK’s political parties gather for their autumn conferences. The Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party will be among the parties bringing their members and MPs together at some expense in a season that lasts about three weeks.

The Conversation

Six cabinet ministers set to lose seats in Tory blue wall rout, new poll shows

Six cabinet ministers are set to lose their seats at the next general election as the Conservatives come under assault in the so-called blue wall of safe Tory seats, a new poll shows.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the Liberal Democrats: a strategy to help oust the Tories

Editorial: Casting the Lib Dems as the party of the NHS is bold but credible – given a Liberal can claim to have invented it

The Guardian - UK

Not-so-cuddly Lib Dems laser focused on target list of seats

Streamlined party under Ed Davey will concentrate its finite resources on a number of key, mainly Tory, constituencies at the next election

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems receive ‘transformational’ £1m boost to election war chest

The windfall, the Liberal Democrats’ biggest since 2019, is said to be enough to recruit extra staff in dozens of seats

The Independent UK

Lib Dems would hike tax on big firms rather than high earners, Davey suggests

Sir Ed said the Liberal Democrat commitment – dating back to 1992 – to raise income tax by 1p to improve public services is now unsustainable.

The Independent UK

Lib Dems will drop key pledge to put penny on income tax, says Sir Ed Davey

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey suggested wealthier workers already pay enough tax

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Sir Ed Davey says Lib Dems will drop key pledge to put penny on income tax

The Liberal Democrats have become the first major party to adopt an early version of its manifesto for a general election expected next year.

The Guardian - UK

Liberal Democrats plan to focus election campaign on ultra-local issues

Approach mirrors recent byelection successes but has some members at conference expressing concern

The Independent UK

Lib Dems: Long waits for GPs three times higher in some rural areas than London

The Liberal Democrats are calling for a strategy to address what they say is an urban-rural divide in access to GPs

The National (Scotland)

Katy Loudon hits back at LibDems after claim voters aren't talking about Brexit

The SNP’s candidate in an upcoming by-election has taken aim at the Liberal Democrats’ claim that voters are not talking about Brexit.

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The Guardian - UK

Battles, old flames and key narratives: a look ahead to conference season

From Liz Truss to Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit to net zero, who are the key figures and crucial issues to look out for at the main party conferences?

The Independent UK

Lib Dems set to fire starting gun of election campaign to ‘smash blue wall’

The party says it will target traditionally Tory seats in southern England.

The Independent UK

Tories and Labour neck and neck in battle for Nadine Dorries seat, poll shows

Labour activists say survey shows ‘two-horse race’ in Mid Bedfordshire, amid warnings Lib Dems could split vote

The Independent UK

Labour and Tories neck and neck in Mid Bedfordshire, poll suggests

The polling, commissioned by a Labour-backing group, suggests a major drop off in Conservative support in the traditionally safe constituency.

The Guardian - UK

Labour and Tories neck and neck in byelection race for Mid Beds, poll says

Survey reveals Labour more likely than Lib Dems to overturn Conservatives’ 25,000 majority in Nadine Dorries’s former seat

Evening Standard

When are the next by-elections? Another Tory resignation prompts 'Red Wall' crunch vote

Scott Benton is the latest Tory to resign, prompting yet another by-election challenge for Rishi Sunak

The Guardian - UK

British Library acquires archive of SDP co-founder Shirley Williams

Exclusive: Papers, notebooks, letters, speeches and photos from 60-year career in public life donated by daughter

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