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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots

the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm joined by James Heel and John Curtis.

Now both of you have been up for most of the night

covering the two by-election results we've had. We've had

Wellington and Kingswood which have both returned Labour MPs. James just give us a

rundown of those two results.

Sure, so first the result we got was Kingswood,

where Labors, Damian Egan, won with the majority of 2,500.

Last time the seat was upwards in 2019

and the Tories won it by more than 11,000 so this was a

reasonably safe Conservative seat and that's now going to labour but the worst result the

night was Wellingborough about an hour later which was was an absolutely dismal result for the Conservatives.

You know, Labours Gen Kitchen won it with almost 14,000 votes and this is of course in a seat where last time in 2019 the Conservatives won about 62% of the vote.

So a huge swing, the second biggest such from Conservatives to Labour since the Second World War,

apart from Dudley West, just after Tony Blair was elected in 1994.

So the key question is of course is about that swing, from the Conservatives to Labour.

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