In article , john@acornusers.org (John M 
Ward) wrote:

> There is a real message that has come out of this by-election, and it is
> that no Labour seat is now "safe".

I suspect that is pretty universal. There is no ward in Cambridge that 
they haven't lost at least once since the new boundaries were introduced 
in 2004. The puzzle is why it was the two where their only active 
opponents were the Tories that they didn't lose in June this year. And no 
internal Labour splits or byelections to help them on the downwards slope 
here either.

Now for the more difficult question: Why are Labour doing clearly better 
than in 2003 in a short list of larger towns and cities? Examples are 
Leicester, Luton and Lambeth to take three alliterative examples.

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