Nidhi Razdan 27 Oct 2023

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00:00Well, it's been a pretty bad few weeks for the UK's Conservative Party. Prime Minister

00:09Rishi Sunak's Tories have had a very resounding defeat in two recent Parliament by-elections.

00:16And the reason why this is important is that these were seats that were actually Conservative

00:19strongholds which have now been won by the Labour Party. One of these seats, in fact,

00:24has been a Conservative seat ever since its inception in 1931. And the very fact that

00:30the Labour Party has now breached these erstwhile Tory strongholds indicates just how unhappy

00:37Conservative voters are with their own party at the moment. It comes at a time when the

00:42UK is facing a cost of living crisis, trouble in the economy overall, the fact that the

00:47healthcare system is under pressure and is on the brink of collapse, transport workers,

00:52nurses, doctors, everyone's been routinely going on strike. And the fact is that while

00:57Rishi Sunak has brought in a degree of stability since his year or so in office, at the same

01:02time, the anger against the Conservative Party clearly runs deep. It's also a remarkable

01:08turnout for the Labour Party and for Keir Starmer, who until a couple of years ago were

01:12being written off in all national polls, and today they have a decisive lead over the Conservatives.

01:18It appears, for the moment, that the Conservatives are heading for a big defeat in the general

01:23elections.