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Bookies think the Conservatives could scrape home in former safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire
Conflict in Gaza set to dominate crucial week in UK politics as parliamentary recess ends following party conference season
Victory in Tamworth next week could foreshadow a general election triumph, as it did for Blair in 1996
Opposition leader says by-election result in Scotland ‘blew the doors off’ after 20 percentage point swing from SNP
Plus: have the Tories betrayed voters in the north?
David Cameron and Boris Johnson both carried off effective transformations in vote-moving and genuinely radical areas
Conservatives handed potential lifeline in Mid Bedfordshire following the resignation of Nadine Dorries
Move will lead to another challenging by-election for the Conservatives within weeks
Panel confirms penalty for former Tory deputy chief whip Chris Pincher
Keir Starmer’s socially conservative stance threatens to alienate voters in Scotland ahead of general election
Conservatives lost two seats but hung on to Uxbridge due in part to voter concern over Labour pollution charge
Party strategists examine themes on which to fight Labour at next national poll
Blue win in Boris Johnson’s former seat shows climate campaign faces an uphill climb
Party pessimistic about chances in three polls as PM talks of fightback in autumn
Rishi Sunak is braced for the Conservatives to lose in Selby and Ainsty
Opposition party is seeking to overturn 19,000 majority to take back Somerset seat from ruling Conservatives
Voters in former PM’s constituency want new direction after partygate scandal and cost of living crisis
Potential by-election in Chris Pincher’s Tamworth seat faces growing volatility of British voters, as patterns become hard to judge
Past attempts at temperature taking in constituencies shows challenge of getting a representative sample
Plus, video of rule-breaking in Conservative HQ adds insult to injury as rising mortgage rates pile pressure across whole of UK
Prime minister’s troubles mount after resignation of David Warburton and emergence of partygate video
The contests are problematic for the UK prime minister, who is struggling to contain internal party feuding
Ashley Dalton increases UK opposition party’s vote share in fourth poll defeat for Conservatives
Oliver Dowden quits as party chair after defeats and ex-leader Michael Howard calls on PM to step down
Scores of other seats could go the way of Tiverton and Honiton and fall to the Lib Dems; the message from Wakefield for Labour is less clear
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