Letter: 1992-96 and 2019-23 compared

A point in my article on the Tamworth by-election (Solidarity 687) is garbled. Labour’s vote in the by-election was lower than in the South East Staffordshire by-election in 1996; but the point I really intended to make is this: the Labour vote grew from the 1992 General Election to that 1996 by-election by over 4,000 votes. 1996 is a particularly useful comparator as it was a year before a general election, as we probably are now. South East Staffordshire was the main predecessor constituency to Tamworth.

David Pendletone, Isle of Wight