Alistair Strathern overturns huge Tory majority to win seat vacated by former culture secretary
Labour have won the Mid Bedfordshire byelection, overturning a huge majority and delivering a significant blow to Rishi Sunak’s hopes of holding on to power at the next general election – expected to be in 2024., beating the candidate hoping to hold it for the Conservatives, Festus Akinbusoye. Strathern overturned a majority of 24,664 – believed to be the greatest such result at a byelection since at least 1945.
He claimed the party’s victory had become possible because it had changed under Starmer’s leadership.The byelection was triggered by the resignation of Dorries, who was upset at not being given a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. She has insisted Sunak blocked a peerage she believed she was about to be awarded by Johnson – an allegation the current prime minister has denied.. The lengthy delay, and the increasing sense in some quarters that Dorries was an absentee MP, opened an avenue for rival parties to overturn the huge majority.
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