How Tories won a huge swing in Leicester amidst Truss debacle
Despite the Tories crashing in the opinion polls, they’ve just won a council by-election on a huge swing – in Leicester. On 13 October, in North Evington ward, in Leicester East parliamentary constituency, the Tories took 49.6% of the vote – up 32.7% . Labour was down 49.8% to 22.5%; and the Greens up 20% to 25.8%. Turnout was exceptionally high for a council by-election - 44.9%. What’s going on? In an area dominated by people of Indian background, this dramatic result seems to stem both from a rise of the Hindu nationalist right and from pandering to it by Labour - who ran a Hindu right...