UK By-elections thread, 2021-

[Wiswylfen]

It's an Amounderness thing.

[CumbrianLefty]

Surely Fylde has to be at least considered, after this evening’s Back to Basics carnival?

Unless the MPs for Fylde and/or Hazel Grove resign pretty imminently, it is now too late for any other process (eg recall) to force byelections in their seats even if the GE is delayed to the end of 2024.

Maybe worth noting that the Tory candidate in the Blackpool South byelection is a Fylde party official.

[YL]

The Tory candidate in Blackpool South just happens to be the chair of Fylde Conservatives.

[YL]

Blackpool South polls have opened. Andrew Teale's Parliamentary Special.

[Blair]

Briefings reform might come 2nd are surely an effort to expectations manage??

[TheTide]

Briefings reform might come 2nd are surely an effort to expectations manage??

Is it based upon anything substantial or just a hunch going by the national polls? I haven't really heard anything about Reform putting much of an effort in.

[YL]

A Tory collapse on the scale of North Shropshire or Wellingborough would put Reform UK into contention for second, especially as they'd presumably be one of the beneficiaries. But has the Tory campaign been as bad as in those two?

[Cassius]

The Reform candidate is a local businessman who has also been involved in charity work in the constituency (food banks et al), so he may get a little bit of an extra boost from that.