By-election result: Labour win safe Conservative seats in Tamworth & Mid Bedfordshire
By-elections for two seats in England have been won by Labour candidates. Sir Keir Starmer's party overturned a massive Conservative majority to take the victory in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth. Many Tory voters stayed home, argue members of the Conservative Party, who've blamed Labour's landslide wins on low voter turnout.
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00:00 It's another two victory parades to attend for Labour leader Sikir
00:05 Starmer who has hailed his party's latest by-election victory,
00:08 history in the making. And a further blow for Rishi Sunak who has
00:12 lost two previously safe Conservative seats. Mid Bedfordshire has
00:16 been blue for the last 90 years and was previously Nadine Doris' seats
00:20 turned red by overturning a majority of 24,000 to make way for new
00:25 seats. And in Tamworth, a similar story. Labour's Sarah Edwards
00:31 overturned a majority of more than 19,000 to claim the seat in the
00:35 Staffordshire constituency. The Conservative Party have put the wins
00:39 down to low voter turnout with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan
00:43 saying very few people actually change their votes. By-elections do
00:47 suffer lower turnout generally. This time, compare 36% turnout in
00:51 Tamworth and 64% that showed in the last 2019 election. But it won't
00:55 squash the spirits of Labour as Starmer tells party activists they