Byelection success sees Labour gain two seats in one night

The Labour party overturned huge Conservative majorities in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire in two historic overnight byelection wins. Alistair Strathern overturned the Conservatives’ near-25,000 majority under Nadine Dorries in Mid Bedfordshire and Keir Starmer said the new MP had 'made history here over the past 24 hours' with the scale of the win. The Labour leader then travelled to Tamworth to appear alongside the party’s winning candidate there, Sarah Edwards, who overcame the Tories’ 2019 majority of just under 20,000 to triumph