{"id":120356,"date":"2023-10-20T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120356"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:49:05","slug":"john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"John Curtice warns by-election results &#8216;extremely bad news&#8217; for Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/secondary\/Professor-Sir-John-Curtice-5022879.jpg?r=1697780324805\"><\/p>\n<p>The by-election results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth are &#8220;extremely bad news&#8221; for Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives, according to a leading pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Labour overturned huge Tory majorities to take the two seats in Thursday&#8217;s crunch ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sir John Curtice said that unless the Conservatives can &#8220;fairly dramatically and fairly radically turn things around&#8221; then they are &#8220;staring defeat in the face&#8221; at next year&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Curtice told the BBC: &#8220;The truth is two by-elections results, both of them extremely bad news for the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now in whatever criteria you use, they&#8217;re up there very clearly in the top 10 of worst Conservative performances against the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we&#8217;ve now had three by-elections with swings of 20 percent of more to the Labour Party. The last time we had that was the 1992-1997 Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is 12 months to go, this isn&#8217;t destiny, but it is a pointer and it is a pointer that, unless the Conservatives can fairly dramatically and fairly radically turn things around, then they are in truth staring defeat in the face in 12 months&#8217; time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The polling expert said the Tories risk seeing voters switch to Labour on the left and Reform UK on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Reform, which is led by Richard Tice, secured 1,487 votes in Mid Bedfordshire and 1,373 in Tamworth, both more than Labour&#8217;s majority over the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Curtice said the Tories &#8220;may get caught in a pincer movement between some of their former Leave voters wandering off to Labour but others going off to Reform UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election results were announced within half an hour of each other in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In Tamworth, Labour&#8217;s Sarah Edwards defeated Tory Andrew Cooper by a majority of 1,316.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards Alistair Strathern took Mid Bedfordshire with 1,192 voters over his Tory rival Festus Akinbusoye in what was the largest majority overturned by Labour at a by-election since 1945.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Advert-free experience without interruptions.<\/li>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Rocket-fast speedy loading pages.<\/li>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Exclusive &amp; Unlimited access to all our content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/logo\/logo-premium-subscription.png\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/1825953\/john-curtice-by-election-tamworth-mid-bedfordshire-tories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The by-election results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth are &#8220;extremely bad news&#8221; for Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives, according to a leading pollster. Labour overturned huge Tory majorities to take the two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Curtice warns by-election results &#039;extremely bad news&#039; for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Curtice warns by-election results &#039;extremely bad news&#039; for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The by-election results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth are &#8220;extremely bad news&#8221; for Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives, according to a leading pollster. Labour overturned huge Tory majorities to take the two\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"cottontailsonline.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/secondary\/Professor-Sir-John-Curtice-5022879.jpg?r=1697780324805\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/\",\"name\":\"John Curtice warns by-election results 'extremely bad news' for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0f97729ba4f6c2af46dd5d5a27032cc9\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/category\/politics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"John Curtice warns by-election results &#8216;extremely bad news&#8217; for Rishi Sunak\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/\",\"name\":\"cottontailsonline.com\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0f97729ba4f6c2af46dd5d5a27032cc9\",\"name\":\"mediabest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7b02be8288a0edbb9764901ae6050dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7b02be8288a0edbb9764901ae6050dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mediabest\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"John Curtice warns by-election results 'extremely bad news' for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"John Curtice warns by-election results 'extremely bad news' for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com","og_description":"The by-election results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth are &#8220;extremely bad news&#8221; for Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives, according to a leading pollster. Labour overturned huge Tory majorities to take the two","og_url":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/","og_site_name":"cottontailsonline.com","article_published_time":"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/secondary\/Professor-Sir-John-Curtice-5022879.jpg?r=1697780324805"}],"author":"mediabest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mediabest","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/","url":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/","name":"John Curtice warns by-election results 'extremely bad news' for Rishi Sunak - cottontailsonline.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-20T05:49:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0f97729ba4f6c2af46dd5d5a27032cc9"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/john-curtice-warns-by-election-results-extremely-bad-news-for-rishi-sunak\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/category\/politics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"John Curtice warns by-election results &#8216;extremely bad news&#8217; for Rishi Sunak"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/","name":"cottontailsonline.com","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0f97729ba4f6c2af46dd5d5a27032cc9","name":"mediabest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7b02be8288a0edbb9764901ae6050dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7b02be8288a0edbb9764901ae6050dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mediabest"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120357,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120356\/revisions\/120357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}