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Witney Articles

Witney to win

Witney and Batley might seem very different places, at either end of England with different political colours. Both face byelections on 20 October, however, and in the words of a great daughter of Labour, there is more in common that unites us than that which divides...

Kick Out Cameron

The campaign to ‘Kick Out Cameron’ in Witney has three aims. We wish to be the first campaign in history to oust a sitting prime minister at a general election. Given David Cameron is so unpopular he has to buy Facebook likes, and leads a hated government that has...

First Labour gain from Tories in 2011

By-election victor Duncan Enright, who won for Labour in the heart of David Cameron’s seat, recounts how hard campaigning in the snow and rigorous focus on local issues that helped him defeat a complacent local Tory party.

Reading the polls

Extrapolating the results of a local council by-election to draw conclusions about the state of the parties nationally is a fool’s game. Last week’s by-election in Witney town council is a case in point. No sooner had Labour supporters begun celebrating our 67 per cent landslide in a Tory ward in David Cameron’s own backyard, it was pointed out that the Tories had failed to field a candidate and turnout had been very low. The main lesson from the Witney by-election is that the easiest way to beat the Tories is to stop them fielding candidates!

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