Keegan: No love for Labour despite by-election defeat
Gillian Keegan has said that despite Labour delivering a historic defeat to the Conservatives, “there was no real love for Labour”.
The education secretary said that their party must now demonstrate to voters that is it worth “getting out of their house and voting Conservatives like they usually do.”
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The education secretary said that their party must now demonstrate to voters that is it worth “getting out of their house and voting Conservatives like they usually do.”
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00:00 by-elections are always tricky, particularly for serving governments, but it is disappointing
00:03 because we had fantastic local candidates, they were both brilliant. But on the doorsteps
00:07 there, there were very, very few people who were switching over, there was no real love
00:11 for Labour. People stayed at home and what people want is for us to focus on the five
00:17 priorities we have to share, we have to deliver. We still have to demonstrate to them that
00:22 it's worth them getting out of their house and voting Conservative like they usually
00:26 do. But this, if you look at the details, this did not show a swing to Labour, it showed
00:32 Conservative voters not coming out.