Theresa May has been visiting Stoke-on-Trent today ahead of the ‘really important’ by-election in the city on Thursday. That the Prime Minister is bothering to pitch up to a campaign in a Labour heartland suggests that the Tories at least think they are in with a fighting chance of winning the seat – otherwise it would be not just a waste of May’s time but also a bit embarrassing if they were seen to have thrown not just the kitchen sink but also the PM at the fight.
Labour, meanwhile, is throwing kitchen sinks wildly and at great expense in the two by-elections due this week, including buying the front page of the local newspaper in Copeland on a number of occasions to make stark warnings about the threats it claims the Tories pose to the local NHS in Cumbria.
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