The winner of the Wakefield by-election got just under 5000 votes FEWER than the Labour candidate in the 2019 election - who LOST that election. Since 1945, until last night, no Labour candidate in Wakefield has attracted fewer than 17000 votes. Last night's winner got just 13166 votes. I suggest that any optimism about this, or anyone claiming that it's a pointer to a future Labour victory, simply means that cloud cuckoo land is alive and well and filling up with valiant Labour hopefuls. The Tories will quickly realise that Boris is safe as long as Keir is at Labour's helm. As long as he's there, the only way the Tories can lose would be if half the cabinet turned out to be mass murderers.