Strap in for a vicious and epochal fight for No 10 as Sunak and Starmer double down after by-election blows
It was the biggest ever Tory majority - more than 20,000 - overturned by Labour in a by-election, and the second biggest swing - 23.7 per cent - away from the Tories to Labour since the Second World War, beaten only by Tony Blair in Dudley West in 1994.
For the Lib Dems, winning Somerton and Frome is their fourth consecutive by-election win this parliament, a feat not achieved since the days of Paddy Ashdown in 1992-1997. One person in Mr Sunak's top team told me that Uxbridge had given the prime minister hope that if he can pin Labour on issues of substance, there is an opportunity to create dividing lines between Labour and the Tories that gives Mr Sunak a chance.
Already the Tories are talking about Labour's now diluted £28bn-a-year investment into green energy in order to deliver green power by 2030 as an obvious area to hit. "The result might not be clean, but it is crystal clear," says one senior Labour figure."Selby shows how far we've come and the potential of what we can do.
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