There's a false story about the death of the foster child Dennis O'Neill, at the age of 12, at a farm under The Stiperstones in Shropshire in 1945. It's been repeated in several articles on the case and I have had it added as a footnote to something I wrote about it too. As far as I can tell the story originates from a piece by David Batty published in the Guardian in 2003. Batty wrote: The case shook a war weary Britain and there was a national outcry when [Reginald] Gough was jailed for six years for manslaughter. An ...
Here are Ed Davey and Richard Foord, the newly elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton, showing Boris Johnson the door. I've seen a lot of criticism of this stunt on Twitter today: it is "cringe"; would you believe someone thought this was a good idea? That sort of thing. But it has worked. The video above come from Sky News and there's a similar one on the BBC News site. For a while this afternoon a photo of our door led the Guardian's online coverage of yesterday's by-elections. But then what was their alternative? A couple of people ...
Thursday was a brilliant day to be a Liberal Democrat! Building on our strong start to the year, we won every principal authority seat we were contesting, in addition to the ground shaking win in Tiverton and Honiton! The result in Tiverton and Honiton, over-turning a 24,000 vote majority, handed the Tories their worst by-election defeat in history. What a result! Congratulations must go out to all our teams across the country who worked so hard for these results. We start off on Shropshire Council, where newly elected Lib Dem councillor Mark Williams gained the Highley seat from the Independent ...
Since the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in March 1988 the party has elected 118 people to the House of Commons, representing 88 separate constituencies. Here is the complete list in chronological order from the first seat won in a by election in 1990, through to the 2019 general [...]
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You can watch this live (or on catchup) from 11am today on BBC News or Sky News. "It's time to show Boris the door" "It's time to show Boris the door" @EdwardJDavey @RichardFoordLD @TivHonLibDems @LibDems #TivertonandHoniton pic.twitter.com/wAmMAK5V8c — Ami Wyllie (@amiwyllienews) June 24, 2022 * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
On Monday, the Conservative Party held its summer party fundraiser. The top lot was dinner with Boris Johnson and his rivals Theresa May and David Cameron. The Dinner of the Century - so-called to avoid inviting Johnson critic John Major - went for £120,000. This was of course a fundraiser and at such events silly things go for silly prices. But the symbolism cannot be missed. Three prime ministers tucking into posh nosh with someone who has £120,000 in spare change while people are struggling to feed themselves and queuing for the food bank. News of the Dinner of the ...
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Ed Davey on Tiverton and Honiton: Wake-up call for Conservative MPs propping up Boris Johnson
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has said the party's stunning victory in Tiverton and Honiton should be a "wake-up call" for Conservative MPs propping up Boris Johnson. Liberal Democrat candidate Richard Foord overturned a Conservative majority of over 24,000, the biggest ever majority overturned in a by-election. Richard Foord gained a majority of 6,144 with a massive swing of 29.9%. It marks the third Liberal Democrat by-election victory in a formerly safe Conservative seat in just over a year, following the party's shock wins in North Shropshire and Chesham and Amersham. Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said: "The Liberal Democrats ...
Well, what a night that was. No-one in their wildest dreams would have predicted a majority of that size for Richard Foord in Tiverton & Honiton. The biggest majority demolished in history. A strong MP was elected who will fight ... Continue reading →
In a calm, reasoned and powerful acceptance speech, newly elected Lib Dem MP for Tiverton and Honiton has a message for Boris Johnson: Tonight, the people of Tiverton & Honiton have spoken for Britain. They've sent a loud and clear message: It's time for Boris Johnson to go. And go now. Ours is a great country and there's no greater part of it than Devon. But every day Boris Johnson clings to office, he brings further shame, chaos and neglect... I also have a simple message for those Conservative MPs propping up this failing Prime Minister: The Liberal Democrats are ...
From the City Council : Dundee City Council proposes to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose of facilitating construction works. The Order is expected to be in force for four months from 27 June 2022. Its maximum duration in terms of the Act is eighteen months. The effect of the Order is to prohibit temporarily the entry to and exit from Hawkhill at its junction with Miller's Wynd. No alternative route is available. If you have any queries, please contact the Network Management Team, City Development Department, Dundee House, 50 ...
There will be news breaking throughout the day as the political establishment cogitates on the results of by-elections and fallout begins. The first Conservative to fall on his sword is Oliver Dowden, until this morning chairman of the Conservative Party. He told Boris Johnson earlier this morning: "Yesterday's parliament by-elections are the latest in a run of very poor results for our party. Our voters are distressed and disappointed by recent events and I share their feelings. "We cannot continue with business as usual. Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that in these circumstances it would not be ...
Parts of Tiverton and Honiton constituency had a Conservative MP continuously back to 1835.
Following the Tiverton & Honiton Parliamentary by-election, there are fourteen Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament.
Simon Lightwood has won the Wakefield by-election overturning the Conservative majority of 3,358 to deliver a 4,925 majority for Labour. He won 13,166 votes, while the Conservative Nadeem Ahmed received 8,241 votes. Wakefield parliamentary by-election result LAB: 47.9% (+8.1) CON: 30.0% (-17.3) IND (Akbar): 7.6% (+7.6) YRK: 4.3% (+2.4) Labour GAIN from Conservative. — Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 24, 2022 This will be cheering news for Keir Starmer, who has been recently taken flak from his own MPs for being boring. It also begins the process of retaking seats in the Red Wall lost to the Tories in 2019. Our ...
In addition to the two Parliamentary by-elections, there are four council by-elections and one rescheduled three-member ward from May, deferred due to the death of an independent candidate. Across those seven seats, there were five Liberal Democrat candidates. First in, a great Lib Dem gain and let's hope it's an omen... Highley by-election, Shropshire Council result is in – and Mark Williams is our county's newest Liberal Democrat Councillor. Lib Dem – 630, 54.5% (+54.5%) Conservative – 279, 24.1% (-9.5%) Labour – 239, 20.7% (+7.3%) Green – 9, 0.8% (+0.8%) See you at Shirehall @mnwilliamz! [IMG: 🔶] pic.twitter.com/vZfOaxIOAJ — Cllr ...
Here's the latest tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held since the last May round of local elections.
From the Guardian website this morning: The Conservatives have lost two key byelections on the same night, with Labour taking Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats overturning a 24,000-plus majority to snatch Tiverton and Honiton, piling enormous political pressure on to Boris Johnson. The Tiverton and Honiton result, where the Lib Dem candidate, Richard Foord, defeated the Tories' Helen Hurford by 6,144 votes to take a constituency that has been Conservative in its various forms for well over a century, will particularly spook Tory MPs. It is believed to be the biggest numerical majority ever overturned in a byelection, although there ...
Full results of Tiverton and Honiton by-election which saw a Liberal Democrat gain from Conservatives. Electorate 81,661; Turnout 42,591 (52.16%, -19.71%). Richard Foord (Lib Dem): 22,537 (52.91%, +38.14%) Helen Hurford (Conservative): 16,393 (38.49%, -21.72%) Liz Pole (Labour): 1,562 (3.67%, -15.88%) Gill Westcott (Green): 1,064 (2.50%, -1.34%) Andy Foan (Reform): 481 (1.13%) Ben Walker (UKIP): 241 (0.57%, -1.06%) Jordan Donoghue-Morgan (Heritage): 167 (0.39%) Frankie Rufolo (For Britain): 146 (0.34%) The Lib Dem majority was 6,144 (14.43%). The swing from Conservative to Lib Dem was 29.93%. * Newshound: bringing you the best Lib Dem commentary in print, on air or online.
Congratulations to Richard Foord and the Lib Dem team on a convincing win in mid-Devon. Richard took the Lib Dems from third place to a majority of 6,144 votes. It is a stonking win and with Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire completes a hattrick of by-election victories. Foord comfortably overturned the 24,239 majority won at the December 2019 general election by former Tory MP Neil Parish - who was forced to resign after he was seen viewing pornography in the House of Commons. One resident is quoted by the Express as calling Richard Foord "the Major from Uffculme, a ...
3.00am. The count is still underway. The result not declared. But the Lib Dems are claiming victory in Tiverton and Honiton. Helen Hurford is reported to have locked herself in a room to avoid the media. Looks like I'm going to need a bigger hammer [IMG: 🟦] [IMG: 🔨] [IMG: 👀] — Ed Davey MP [IMG: 🔶] [IMG: 🇬🇧] [IMG: 🇪🇺] (@EdwardJDavey) June 24, 2022 * Andy Boddington is a Lib Dem councillor in Shropshire. He blogs at andybodders.co.uk. He is Thursday editor of Lib Dem Voice.
This public lecture by Mr Colpeper (played by Eric Portman) from A Canterbury Tale is probably my favourite moment in probably my favourite film - a film I've learnt not to take lightly. A reader has now alerted me to an obvious source for it: Hilaire Belloc's The Old Road. Published in 1904, it describes the author's journey along what he claims to be an ancient trackway from Winchester to Canterbury. Describing what he hoped to gain from this journey, Belloc writes: For my part I desired to step exactly in the footprints of such ancestors. I believed that, as ...
While you are waiting for news from Tiverton & Honiton we can also offer you some encouragement from two other elections, on top of the excellent result in Highley in Shropshire. First, from the London borough of Kingston upon Thames. Last month Lib Dems had a resounding victory by winning 41 of the 45 council seats. But the contest in one ward, New Malden Village, was deferred after the death of an independent candidate just a few days before polling day, leaving the three seats still vacant. This created a rather odd campaigning environment – our squeeze message evaporated as ...
Some good news to begin the night while we wait for the Tiverton and Honiton result. Lib Dems win by-election! [IMG: 🔶] [IMG: 💪] https://t.co/AcceCL6R3J — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) June 23, 2022 Congratulations to Mark Williams who takes Lib Dem number of the unitary Shropshire Council to 14, the second largest party. This was a hard fought campaign for a seat the Conservatives wanted to win, after they lost 12% of their seats in the 2021 all up council elections including the then council leader who was ousted by a Lib Dem. Late last year, the Conservatives lost the North ...
