Heathrow Decision Triggers By-Election

[Gromit]

Zac Goldsmith has resigned as an MP.

A by-election will now take place in his Richmond Park constituency.

Is the Government's small majority about to be reduced?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/25/zac-goldsmith-quits-as-tory-mp-for-richmond-park-over-heathrow-a/

[ToraToraTora]

no, pretty safe seat gromit.

[ichkeria]

There's every chance of it, I'd have thought.
And if Boris lies down in front of the diggers, and doesn't get up in time that'll be another by-election and before you know it ... :-)

There was talk of the government doing a deal with the DUP meanwhile.

[ichkeria]

Well the answer is definitively "Yes" it would seem.
Mrs Death Mask really is scared of the LibDems then!
But one MP less is one MP less ...

[Jomlett]

Boris Johnson going to lie down in front of the bulldozers?

Not yet, but he's already lied down the side of a bus.

[mikey4444]

Goldsmith has said that he will resign and fight the seat as an independent, so that's Mrs May's majority down one then.

[mikey4444]

Goldsmith has a majority of 23,015, with a 58.2% share of the vote.

Another "safe" Tory seat ?

[ichkeria]

Ha ha jomlett!!