Labour wins Tamworth with swing of 23.9 percentage points from Tories, then Mid Bedfordshire in largest ever turnaround of majority in UK byelection
In an interview on the Today programme Greg Hands, the Conservative party chair, elaborated on his claim that “legacy issues” had hurt the party in the byelections. When it was put to him that people did not believe the party had changed because of incidents like 24 people being fined last week because of a party for Tory activists that breached lockdown rules, Hands said the event happened three years ago.
Asked if the staffers had been fired, Hands said disciplinary action was taken at the time. And asked about Andrew Cooper, the Tory candidate in Tamworth, posting a message on Facebook suggesting jobless parents who cannot feed their children should “fuck off” if they want state help but can still pay a £30 phone bill, Hands said that was also something that happened three years ago. Hands said he would not have chosen those words himself.
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