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Cheltenham lad to take on Corbyn on June 8th
Posted: 08 May 2017, 11:30
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
Pates pupil (class of 2003) taking on the Labour leader for the Tories.
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Re: Cheltenham lad to take on Corbyn on June 8th
Posted: 08 May 2017, 13:17
by asl
Out of interest, has an incumbent leader of any of the main parties ever been defeated in a General or By-election? Not suggesting the remotest possibility of that happening here (although I did think Nick Clegg was in danger, last time) - just interested.
Re: Cheltenham lad to take on Corbyn on June 8th
Posted: 08 May 2017, 13:25
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
asl wrote:Out of interest, has an incumbent leader of any of the main parties ever been defeated in a General or By-election? Not suggesting the remotest possibility of that happening here (although I did think Nick Clegg was in danger, last time) - just interested.
Not that I can recall in my life time, unless you count the Scottish Labour Party as a separate party (Murphy was decapitated in the Scottish Labourcide in 2015).
Corbyn may have been more at risk had the election been May 2018 as his constituency is one which is facing being split up redrawn in the boundary review.