In 2023, as they head towards a set of dismal local election results, the Tories will fear this is the darkest hour before another new Labour dawn next year
Elsewhere in the country, however, Conservative MPs with smaller majorities will be in a cold sweat this morning.
Many of the Conservatives' worst results were in"red wall" and strongly pro-Brexit areas, like Stoke-on-Trent, for example. What will worry the party's high command is that Nigel Farage's vote in 2019 appears to have gone back to Labour, not the Tories.
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