The Conservative Party’s poor performance in North Shropshire byelection was not unexpected, despite the rural seat having been a Tory stronghold for nearly 200 years. The Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Morgan overturned a massive Conservative majority of nearly 23,000 in North Shropshire to win the seat vacated following Conservative MP Owen Paterson’s resignation. Lib Dem success, but proceed with cautionThere’s no denying that this was a fantastic result and campaign by the Liberal Democrats. Of all the lessons for Johnson to learn from this byelection, the need to reestablish the link and trust between the voters and the government is definitely the most important. This was a bad night for Labour tooThe byelection result isn’t necessarily just about the Conservatives and Lib Dems.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 17, 2021 17:09 UTC