Re: Brexit
I wouldn’t be crowing if I were the Labour this morning. That result was a lot closer than they will have liked. Opposition parties are meant to hold their seats at by elections. They frequently do so with increased majorities. Increasing the majority by 76 while also losing 17% of your support relative to 2017 is nothing to brag about, especially when you’ve just been run to the wire by a party that didn’t exist 2 months ago.
If this result shows anything it’s that Labour’s support in Peterborough has collapsed and they’ve hung on only because the Tories tend to lose even more votes to the Brexit Party than Labour does. If a new Tory leader can deliver Brexit and neutralise Farage, he could wipe the floor with Corbyn in a subsequent general election.
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