If you’re in a hurry, I will save you some time. The Labor Party led by Vanilla Blob has romped to landslide victories in two Tory strongholds, handily winning the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections. If you have time to stick around, the real question is how much this victory was due to Vanilla Blob’s mushy, centrist, aggressively de-Corbynified Labor Party and how much was due to Boris Partygate Johnson’s squandering of an 80-seat Tory majority since 2019.
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