Disgraced Conservative MP Neil Parish has just announced he's going to resign. Until 2010, the opposition to the Tories in Tiverton and Honiton came from the Liberal Democrats. Indeed, it was only after the Clegg calamity, a barely-legal political campaign throughout south-west England by the Tories and a brief flourish by UKIP that Labour took over a distant second place in the constituency. However, the exposure of the moral turpitude of the current administration may return many borderline conservative voters to the liberal cause. Sir Keir Starmer's Labour is not exciting radical feelings. With Brexit out of the way, no longer an issue, and the economy back in the centre of voters' thoughts I would expect the Liberal Democrat candidate at least to leapfrog Labour and maybe even win, as Helen Morgan did in North Shropshire.
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