Blair’s fortunes hinge on by-elections

Sunday Herald

This Thursday night, almost like a pathetic Hollywood studio that can’t help itself by commissioning and re-commissioning bankable sequels, we have the potential of Return To Brent or Brent East Revisited or just Brent II.

Hodge Hill is Conservative target number 365 out of all the UK parliamentary constituency. For Charles Kennedy’s Liberal Democrats it is target number 514. The Liberal Democrats captured a measly 8% of the vote last time. Yet even with the starkness of the arithmetic and the commandment-on-high from Downing Street that reads simply “Thou shalt not lose Hodge Hill”, this is a by-election that has the main parties riddled with jitters.

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