but opposition parties sense an opportunity. injuly, labour overturned a similarly large tory majority to win selby and ainsty. its party chair was out in flitwick today, aiming for a repeat. from my conversations that i ve had with people, they can see that labour with keir starmer offering something very, very different. we re absolutely determined to change our country for the better. the lib dems argue they re best placed after explosive wins in places like summerton and frome. this is a seat, a rural blue wall seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we ve won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on. the exit of mid bedfordshire s mp has been dramatic and noisy. choosing her replacement might be no more peaceful. helen catt, bbc news.
but no information at all, i and she should have gone before. campaigning began weeks ago. nadine dorries last won here by nearly 25,000 votes, but opposition parties sense an opportunity. injuly, labour overturned a similarly large tory majority to win selby and ainsty. its party chair was out in flitwick today, aiming for a repeat. from my conversations that i ve had with people, they can see that labour with keir starmer offering something very, very different. we re absolutely determined to change our country for the better. the lib dems argue they re best placed after explosive wins in places like summerton and frome. this is a seat, a rural blue wall seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we ve won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on.
a similarly large tory majority to win selby and ainsty. its party chair was out in flitwick today, aiming for a repeat. from my conversations that i ve had with people, they can see that labour with keir starmer offering something very, very different. we re absolutely determined to change our country for the better. the lib dems argue they re best placed after explosive wins in places like summerton and frome. this is a seat, a rural blue wall seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we ve won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on. the exit of mid bedfordshire s mp has been dramatic and noisy. choosing her replacement might be no more peaceful. helen catt bbc news. earlier this month, san francisco voted to allow robo, or driver less taxis,
seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we ve won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on. the exit of mid bedfordshire s mp has been dramatic and noisy. choosing her replacement might be no more peaceful. helen catt, bbc news. in zimbabwe, the country s opposition leader nelson chamisa has claimed victory after challenging the results of the election. on saturday, zimbabwe s president emmerson mnangagwa said he had won enough votes to secure a second term. mr chamisa s party, citizens coalition for change, claims there s been widespread vote rigging, and international observers say the election has fallen short of democratic standards. we have won this election, we are in the lead. we re even surprised why mr mnangagwa has been declared the leader, because he s not.
i don t see either labour or the lib dems standing back from this seat. there s only been one poll in the constituency which put labour ahead by a small amount, a bit of a chaotic poll. but the lib dems think that they can get it because they re good at this kind of safe tory seat, taking it on. so it ll be a very interesting fight. yeah, indeed. interesting indeed. now, the bbc, they did actually visit her constituents and some of them said that they hadn t actually seen herfor a really long time. despite her boasts of doing more surgeries more often than the average mp. yes. i don t think she s endeared herself to to her constituencies, to constituents. and i don t think she s made life easy for the the conservative candidate who has to follow her. but, i mean, i think the thing about byelections at this stage of a parliament, when the government is is unpopular, as unpopular as it is, is that