Voting to open in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth byelections

Voting is due to begin at 7am in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth in byelections seen as crucial in gauging the electoral fate of Rishi Sunak, but difficult to predict.are defending majorities of nearly 25,000 in Mid Bedfordshire and close to 20,000 in Tamworth, which would normally point to an easy hold. However, their chances will be hampered by the party’s dismal poll ratings and the records of departing MPs.

Sarah Edwards, the Labour candidate in Tamworth, is the bookmakers’ favourite to defeat the Conservatives’ Andrew Cooper, but this would need a swing of more than 21 percentage points.that in 2020 he shared a Facebook photo of a flowchart which said parents should only seek help with their finances if they were employed and gave up their TV and mobile phone contracts.

Mid Bedfordshire is even harder to call, given that both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have flung huge resources at the byelection. The refusal of either side to back down makes it possible that even a fairly demoralised local Conservative group could win with their candidate, Festus Akinbusoye, the local police and crime commissioner.However, if the Conservatives lose, it would be – depending whose version you follow – either the biggest majority overturned in a byelection since 1945, or the biggest ever.

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