LibDems can still win Crewe and Nantwich

A bad result in Crewe and Nantwich for Labour and a good one for the Tories...but I had to smile at the tactics of the by-election machine that is the LibDems...which produced this BBC headline two days before polls opened.

True, the Crewe result was not as bad for the LDs as for Labour, and they were coming from third place.

But despite the LibDems hype and spin, the actual result was the worst LibDem by election performance in a Labour for many years, and certainly since 1997...

Were you still up for Portillo's comment on Crewe and Nantwich...?

With the BBC's John Pienaar taking a punt on a Tory by-election majority in Crewe and Nantwich of 7,800, it was left to Michael Portillo to put things in perspective...

On tonight's Politics Show, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister recalled how in the 1980s and early 1990s, Labour in Opposition won 'by election after by election' but failed to win the trust of the country in General Election after General Election...