UK Parliamentary by-elections, 2015 onwards (also devolved legislatures)

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Tories should run Mr Moat for throwback's sake

If that happened Paul Gascoigne would unexpectedly file as an independent candidate at the last moment.

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Yeah, the thing which Labour should be worrying about (and we really really should be worrying) are the polls, and the general state of the leadership, not these by election results, which are pretty much impossible, given the seats that have come up, to generalise.

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Nice to see the left-wing commie biased BBC ignoring Copeland and focusing almost entirely on Nuttall going down in Stoke...oh wait, they are focusing on Copeland.

This is the correct angle, though. The Official Opposition to a second term government is completely unraveling and has just lost a seat they've held for 80 years on a massive swing. There is no bigger story.