Mid Beds by-election: Lib Dems have won over lifelong Conservatives in true blue villages

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Commenting on the polls closing in the Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections, Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office Spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said: 

“Whatever the outcome, it is clear that the Lib Dem vote has surged in true blue villages across Bedfordshire, as former lifelong Conservative voters choose to send this government a message. 

“I am bursting with pride at the campaign Emma Holland-Lindsay has run, which has offered Mid-Bedfordshire a positive and inspiring vision for change. Emma has rolled up her sleeves, ran constituency surgeries whilst the absent Conservative MP was nowhere to be found, and already begun the work of helping local people who have felt badly let down. 

“Both Emma Holland-Lindsay in Mid-Bedfordshire and Sunny Virk in Tamworth have stood up for their communities against this out of touch Conservative government. They have done our party and our country’s democracy proud.”

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