By Bagehot
IT IS a procedure of Labour's sorry state nowadays that losing simply one of 2 seats that it has actually held for years is dealt with as premises for relief in the celebration. In the by-elections held the other day, both set off by the resignation from politics of centrist MPs understood to anguish of the celebration's instructions under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour held Stoke Central on a minimized vote share (37%, below 39%) and lost Copeland to the Conservatives, whose vote share increased 8 indicate 44%. The Labour leader's previous opposition to nuclear power (the primary company in the Cumbria seat) and his celebration's baffled position on Brexit (the seat voted to leave the EU) were both consider the outcomes.
