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TORY PM David Cameron was braced for a miserable night yesterday as his party’s right-wing revolt to turn into a by-election nightmare in Clacton.
Douglas Carswell was set to canter home to become Ukip’s first ever MP after switching parties last month.
But Ed Miliband was poised to celebrate his party holding off a determined Ukip challenge to retain the Heywood and Middleton seat, where the Tories are expected to finish third.
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY