Politics UK
Why the By-Elections are Bad News for Sunak
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Yesterday, in a significant blow to Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives suffered two heavy defeats in by-elections, while Labour and Liberal Democrats made major gains. In this video, we look at the by-elections, comparing them with the previous results in 2019, and analyse what this could mean for Rishi Sunak’s premiership and the upcoming general election.
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Brexit isn’t going quite to plan and the oven-ready Brexit deal may have not been properly baked, with polls suggesting that most Brits view it as a mistake and would rejoin the EU if given the chance. In this video, we take a look at potential solutions to Brexit and whether any of these solutions could help.
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1 – https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/freedom-of-movement-leavers-remainers/
2 – https://omnisis.co.uk/polls/sound-as-a-euro-one-in-four-brits-would-welcome-euro-as-part-of-eu-re-join-deal/
3 – https://omnisis.co.uk/polls/sound-as-a-euro-one-in-four-brits-would-welcome-euro-as-part-of-eu-re-join-deal/
4 – https://obr.uk/box/the-latest-evidence-on-the-impact-of-brexit-on-uk-trade/
5 – https://www.institute.global/insights/geopolitics-and-security/fixing-brexit-new-agenda-new-partnership-european-union
00:00 – Introduction
01:57 – Could the UK Rejoin?
02:34 – What About Norway Plus?
04:14 – So, What Else Can We Do?
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In this video we explore Burnham’s promise to implement a more representative electoral system in the UK but will he actually succeed where countless other governments have failed – and actually change the voting system?
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History of Electoral Reform
Idox Group Electoral Reform: A Never Ending Story?
https://www.idoxgroup.com/insights/electoral-reform-a-never-ending-story/
BBC News Opposing Voting Reform ‘Selfish’ and ‘Immoral’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41775307
UK in a Changing Europe Electoral Reform: the State of Debate and Future Prospects
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/electoral-reform-the-state-of-debate-and-future-prospects/
Make Votes Matter 2024 Was Our Least Representative Election Ever
News Articles
Electoral Reform Society Prime Minister Announces Manifesto Pledge at Labour Conference
Prime Minister announces manifesto pledge and historic National Commission at Labour Conference
The Guardian Labour MPs Will Push Burnham to back Voting Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/25/andy-burnham-electoral-reform-first-past-the-post
Labour List Majority of MPs Back Review of Voting System
https://labourlist.org/2026/08/majority-labour-mps-review-voting-system/
Official Resources
Parliament UK Alex Sobel Amendment
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247
Labour Andy Burnham Conference Speech Transcript
Polling
YouGov Should We Change Our Current British Voting System
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/should-we-change-our-current-british-voting-system
More in Common September MRP Poll
0:00 Can Burnham Actually Ditch First-Past-the-Post?
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Nigel Farage said Andy Burnham’s comments about potentially rejoining the EU had given him “the biggest boost in [his] career”. We look at why — even if it seems counter-intuitive — another Brexit debate could actually hurt Farage.
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Farage responds to Burnham’s decision to reopen EU debate
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/01/burnhams-reopening-of-brexit-debate-is-biggest-boost-in-my-career-says-farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-uk-could-go-all-the-way-rejoining-eu
British public sentiment on the EU
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-support-for-rejoining-the-european-union
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/half-want-to-rejoin-eu-and-backing-it-could-drive-up-labour-vote-megapoll-finds
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-politico-poll-britons-want-to-get-closer-to-the-eu-and-even-farages-voters-agree/
Economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-has-brexit-affected-business-investment-in-the-uk
Reform UK crises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckly020edl45o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
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Yesterday, Holborn and St. Pancras headed to the polls to select a new MP (replacing former MP Keir Starmer). With another leader on the ballot, the Green’s Zack Polanski, all eyes were on the race… one Polanski ultimately lost.
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@freakylocz14
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Vote Tory!
@amarjeetsehmi8995
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Sunik will win by election if his FS does not revolt and betray him
@amarjeetsehmi8995
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Sunik has not been what was expected from him in performance. His money could not create any influence to attract anone to his capability.
@freneticness6927
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I think weirdly canadian and british elections have a commonality. Labour in the uk doesnt care if scotland leaves the union and the conservatives in canada dont care if quebec becomes independent. However those issues are actually important to about 90% of the people in each country. Thats why labour will continue to win in canada and the conservatives will win in the uk until the other parties wake up to those issues and release a realistic non wishy washy policy.
@songjisooyun558
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Yeah if the Conservatives actually cared about things that harm Englishmen, they would be losing so bad. But nope, they wanna go after a tiny marginalised community. Dollars and roofs, or lack there of is scarier then a trans woman peeing. But Tories dont understand that
@alexandralillywhite5997
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Good points for the most part, but could we maybe not go with the propaganda lines that
a. ULEZ is a Sadiq Khan policy (it's Boris Johnson's)
b. The vote was a major defeat due to ULEZ
Like come on. You can't say both that it was a narrow win in a once safe Tory seat, and that it was a crushing defeat, both in the same sentence.
@carljackson5259
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Read all of my thing press on it and read it
@carljackson5259
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I do not understand why people still voted for blue and red wire voted for the two worst part of voted for both of them both sides are going to do things divide plenty of years to do it since I’ve been growing up any other time the public showed both of them two blue one red when you lied to the public will punish you vote for anybody you got note your note to lose what are you going to do it gonna take any more chances and whatHow many years have the blue at it how many years does a read of it another day ever Dunnottar screwed the public over I’ll give you a sample your bedroom Taxi bedroom tax means when your child moves out your house you get charged for your child movie now been punished for letting your child grow up when you got the greedy gas people are allowed to get away with it don’t worry about it Coucil is in Leicester when your partner guys marathon you married to married to Rob I had to pay for my part I paid for a community charge went to a dead horse I would’ve lost the house this is agreed is there and I’ve got a grievance against the councils I am going to stop cars from parking pass please I’ve got no powers anymore at the palace took up giving pocket tickets out in Leicester so you tell me how much more can we get away with it for you lot all wake up blue and red do not vote for none of it I don’t careVote for someone but not for them I don’t care which one you hope you think about it in you you decide but do not vote for blue and red just a shower then HS is in big trouble bothered about us little people they don’t care anyway at summer for me the weather just think serious for you do it
@SewerShark
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Love the smell of conservative tears in the morning (sips coffee)
@richardcairns8627
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
can some one tell me why the people of Tamworth staffs, have not been giving a by election as C- Pincher is not our MP the town do not want him.
@samanthabeattie2187
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
My NIPPLES ARENT GOING TO BE TOAST
@georgeegeorgee
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
would be good to have a representative electoral system in the UK, in the spirit of democracy and will of the people and all that other western gospell
@vinnieomahoney6359
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Needs to go, should have stayed resigned, enough of tories, let’s gets some fresh blood in number ten
@kylieross5498
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
*My brother works for local MP and he says that they’re gearing up for general election to be held in October 2024 (like it’s not official for the public yet but all MPs know)
@simonb1996
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
It's crazy that we allow the same party to rule for more than 10 consecutive years.
It's happened multiple times, for both the Conservatives and Labour.
@arthurashley6414
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Vote for Nigel Farage .make England great again 👏 👍 👌
@dww6
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Green party will grow until they get to the point where they can influence policy.
Then everyone will find out how much they have jumped the shark.
@AhmedMonir-ok4gj
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Jesus son of Mary, peace be upon him, will descend in Syria on the wings of two angels, his face dripping water as if he had just come out of the shower, his breath will reach the tips of his fingers, any person who enters into the space of his breath will die immediately except for Muslims, he will kill the pig and break the cross and then pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque with Muslims, Then he calls the Christians to convert to Islam, He also recommended them before (in the Gospel of Barnabas) to believe in Muhammad, the Messenger of God peace be upon him.[61:6]
And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Children of Israel! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah unto you, confirming that which was (revealed) before me in the Torah, and bringing good tidings of a messenger who cometh after me, whose name is the Praised One. Yet when he hath come unto them with clear proofs, they say: This is mere magic.
[61:7]
And who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie against Allah when he is summoned unto Al-Islam ? And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.
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Fain would they put out the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light however much the disbelievers are averse.
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He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it conqueror of all religion however much idolaters may be averse.
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@pauldean8638
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Labour drop ulez and they win Uxbridge again , bye bye tories
@pauldean8638
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Can’t wait to see the back of the clown
@bnjmnpierce
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
This seat thing is just embarrassing. Don’t you listen to what you say or don’t you know what you are talking about? Who writes this stuff? ChatGPT?
@fidomusic
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
The Greens came third in all three seats, and in Somerton and Frome they got 10.2% of the vote, pushing Labour into fourth place with only 2.6%. It was a good day for The Greens.
@grievuspwn4g3
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I'd like to see a Starmer government, but i don't fot a second believe they'd getting anything done, or last a full term for thst matter.
@Chlorate299
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
One thing the by-elections have highlighted is how badly split the left wing/"anyone but tory" vote is. With that share of the vote split 3 ways I expect it's going to be tricky to form government next election without a coalition.
@3xustio
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
@6:06 Only in British politics can you have a guy with a trashcan on his head named "Count Binface" run for a seat in the house……..
@ronanmcw
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Boys you do yourself a disservise by falling for the false tory narrative of calling it 'khans ulez'. ULEZ was johnsons policy as London Mayor, which is a supreme irony
@benjamingodwin4760
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
UK desperately needs preferential voting
@peabody1976
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I was looking at the three by-election numbers you had. If you take "Tories vs. all else", you get a true picture of their worries:
1) Uxbridge and S. Ruislip had Tuckwell at 13,965 and Beales at 13,470, by itself a close call. Had enough people who voted for either Bacquiche or Green, or both, switched to strategic voting, Labour would have won. The three parties combined had a better showing that Tuckwell alone.
2) In Selby and Ainsty, Mather by himself won an outright win, even if you put the Tories/Lib Dems/Greens together and just barely if you include the top independent candidate and the Reform UK candidate. At 16,456, the Holmes would have needed both the independent and the Reform UK votes and still would not have won.
3) Somerton and Frome was not only an outright win by Sarah Dyke, but by herself she won more votes than all other candidates combined.
If these numbers hold, irrespective Uxbridge/S. Ruislip, it means both the Labour and Lib Dem parties have a chance of if not a majority Labour government then a hung parliament with Labour and Lib Dems possibly teaming up should some policies align. Yes, Sunak needs to be worried.
@jamo491
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
If the tories had any morals at all they'd hold an election
@johnbishop2342
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Hopefully, if the public act together, the whole corrupt , privileged shower will be out . The only problem being, will they be replaced by better, worse , or more of the same ?
@shoaibhussain
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
495 "seats"? You mean votes right? Seats are in parliament when talking about majority control, votes are for constituencies
@karlc848
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Who ever wins the next GE we are screwed, Non of them work for us. It time for reform
@monkeyboy8424
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Ringmaster Rishi and his circus government of talentless clowns are finished. The worry is, how much more damage they do before the big top comes down.
@omblae
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
The tories wont be able to manage expectations at the next GE and they know it. So expect them to take the rest of the country down with them
@bolitho1881
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
poLIEticians are not to blame….they have Always been what they are….the blame lays with the Stupid British Electorate who keep Voting them into Power….simple.
@billybunter5575
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
lets face it the tories have had a good run at persicuting the poor working class for there own greed and back handers. let labour have a chance now at helping the working class and lets see a bit of persicutioin against those greedy tories.
@talos2384
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Anyone voting conservative should be put in a asylum.
@judoisoww
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
You didn't think to mention that ULEZ was brought in by former lord mayor of London BORIS JOHNSON!? and that it was the Tory party the pressured Kahn to accelerate it's roll-out?
I'm Australian and I know this fact. I would hope you guys are better with the details than this.
@MrYorickJenkins
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Votes not seats! Don't you know the difference? And it is "cocaine use" not cocaine usage" "use" refers to using, whereas "usage" refers to a rate of using. The Conservatives are NOT "being squeezed from multiple directions", they are being squeezed from just TWO directions. Whoever wins the next election might do well to look at how English is taught in schools:)
I suppose the now fashionable pronunciation of issue as though it it were spelt with sh is something one has to accept, but as it is written "issue", why do so many people nowadays pronounce it "ishoo"? American influence probably. Do people say "tishoo" for tissue? And do people say "kish" for kiss? Mish for miss=? Mish for Miss? The only exception I can think of is when s is folowed by ion because then the word would take long to to pronounce or.permission "permishon" instead of permis i on for example. Otherwise the s sounds sounds crisper than a sh sound.
As for the election results, does it make a big difference? Both Conservative and Labour stand for more or less the same thing: pro NATO, pro West, pro globalist.
@jamespayter6948
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
It looks like the issues, as always, is that any vote that isn't Tory is a split vote. Any vote that doesn't go to Labour goes to the Tories.
@DRKrust492
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I continue to disagree these bi-elections are reflections on Sunak. They are reflections on Johnson, Truss and the right side on the Conservatives.
@waterlifting
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Britoids are always doomed
@Chris-hc3ge
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
starmer will get in and lock us down before christmas, i put a 1000 quid on it.
@sebastianwrites
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
And Ed Davey of the Lib Dems needs to focus on promoting Liberal Democrat policies!
I supported them for 20+ years, warned them 13 years ago, not to go into coalition with the Conservatives… and yet I have little idea what they stand for now?
Cheap promotions in tractors… come on please?
@sebastianwrites
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
ULEZ is a good thing, saving 'children' from breathing air that kills them… not sure what you mean by this message being confusing?
@thisismetoday
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
The ULEZ is great, and I don’t give a ** what these whingers are saying. We need to tackle air pollution. That means changing your driving habits. Stop make everyone else breathe in the toxic air you’re producing with your car. It’s so selfish, it makes me angry. Allergies are on the rise, asthma is on the rise, air pollution related deaths are on the rise. The mayor has my FULL support.
@fliedlice88
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
I believe the candidates get votes, not seats…
@Guesswhokk
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
The problems is under FPTP, votes are divided up when Labour + lib Dems are like minded voters than, meaning Tory voters will almost always gain a majority by default.
knowing this Labour are still too reliant on tactical voters, without concession.
@idanthyrsus6887
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
How you guys tolerate being run by an outlander is nuts. Shocking he hasn't been assassinated yet.
@tomc9453
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 am
Who in their right mind is still voting lib dem?