Voters head to polls in three byelections seen as test of Rishi Sunak’s premiership – UK politics live

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1. So what are people thinking will happen?

   I’ll put down ten upvotes on them losing one seat and keeping two.

2. I did my bit in Uxbridge. Opinion Polls suggest it is going to switch to Labour after being a Con safe seat forever.

3. At this point he’s basically fucked. The next election is unwinnable, and it’s really just damage limitation to see if they can keep the next labour government to 2 terms rather than 3.

4. Whats going to happen is he fails this test? Is it fuck all because no one wants the hot seat right now and the tories will never call an early election (just want to add a caveat that by “early election” what i mean is anything earlier than 6 months before January 2025) because they know they’re going to get absolutely annihilated at the election.

   And what the hell are 200 or so tories who’ve been sat in Parliament for however long, going to do when they find themselves unemployed, what transferable skills do they really have?

   Edit. I imagine any hints of announcements will probably come with a “how to maximise your CV” course for all tory MPs and paid staff. Run and organised by se tory donor