barry gardiner, thank you, we will show you the swing. 6.7. show you the swing. the swing from labourto conservatives, 6.7. it show you the swing. the swing from labour to conservatives, 6.7. it say hi swing, not in by—elections in general, but a hi swing, not in by—elections in general, buta high hi swing, not in by—elections in general, but a high swing to go from the official opposition to the governing party. that is the remarkable part of this swing. 6.7. if that was to be carried out through the country, the conservatives would have a majority of over 120, though of course it's a lwa ys of over 120, though of course it's always a mistake to take one constituency and say how the country will vote. but even so, that's an encouraging result there, matt hancock. i can't thing you can put this down just hancock. i can't thing you can put this downjust a hancock. i can't thing you can put this down just a local issues. of course there were local issues and we had a very good candidate but the fa ct we went we had a very good candidate but

barry gardiner, you wanted to come in.e run at unseating labour. the double whammy. you showed the graph drew, they were level pegging at the last general election, and the conservatives took a calculator decision. they then saw paul nuttall‘s campaign implode so spectacularly that they thought, actually, maybe we should be re—focusing our efforts on stoke to see if we can leapfrog. so i think that explains what was going on. i think it was cynical of the conservative party to actually want to give ukip that free run. they couldn't have predicted that paul nuttall‘s campaign would be mired so much. but it looks like that strategy doesn't come off. it looks that way. let's look at labour's opinion poor average since last march. it looked pretty dire. they have gone from 33% in march down to 27, pretty consistent downward trend. the reason we were given during the summer of last year and even into the autumn is that the leadership campaign had deflected from the issues, had made labour seem divided, people don't like endless