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politicians. conservatives are gloomy about the prospects of tonight, the polling says you could lose all three. how much pressure would rishi sunak be under attack turns out to be case? i would rishi sunak be under attack turns out to be case? turns out to be case? i think if i m honest, clearly turns out to be case? i think if i m honest, clearly the turns out to be case? i think if i m honest, clearly the backdrop - turns out to be case? i think if i m honest, clearly the backdrop to i honest, clearly the backdrop to these byelections has been a truly difficult and nobody is trying to pretend anything other than that. but what has happened is we have fought these byelections very hard, we have been putting the case out there, i want to thank the activists who have been doing that, i think the priorities, we have got the right, we re not talking about a general election tonight, it s very rare for a government to win by elections in this period of time, so let s see how the nigh
john curtis was saying, that would be a historic swing. we can see some of the recent by elections labour have held and won, and you can see the highest they have made in terms of a swing is 13.6%. if they win that, that really will be a sign, certainly of success tonight in terms of by elections, we will discuss what it means in terms of a general election. let s have a look at somerton and frome and the liberal democrat swing there and what is required. you can say it would need a 14.8% swing, still pretty sizeable, but we have already heard from munira wilson, the liberal democrat mp, that she is pretty confident they have smashed that. perhaps not surprising because if we look at some of the recent swings in by elections from the lib dems, the swings have been up to 34.2%, so 14.8% shouldn t be that difficult for them. how are you
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