silence from the conservative party, very few conservatives speaking tonight as you might expect. the candidate is nowhere to be heard either. i think they will spend this evening, once we have the official result, taking stock official result, taking stock of what is one of the worst by election performances that we have seen. on one hand we shall always remember that by elections are unusual and it is not rare visiting governments to experience enormous by election losses, for example in brent in 2003, tony blair to the liberal democrats, tony blair return in 2005, there are endless examples like that, but it doesn t mean that it really affect the alchemy of politics as they are, particularly the psychology of members of parliament. they are very nervous about their seats and we are potentially looking at another general election in two years, people thought it might come in 2023 or earlier, i suspect those people would take