Portillo Moments in your country

[CumbrianLefty]

The UK Conservatives keeps having "almost-Portillo" moments. Not as exciting as an actual loss, but point to an underlying vulnerability next time their not in the lead.

In 2017, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd came within 400 votes of losing her previously comfortable seat, and in 2019, then-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had his majority slashed to 1,000 votes.

A now mostly forgotten example of this was George Younger nearly losing Ayr in 1987.

[CumbrianLefty]

And of course many thought Rifkind might lose in 1992 - his defeat five years later was a few things but not really a shock at all.