Conservatives will take election beating 'with humility', MP claims

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Conservative MP Nigel Huddleston reacts to Reform UK's victory in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election.Speaking to GB News, Huddleston said: "These elections are about council elections, about what the council can do and the mayoral elections, about what the mayor can do. And it's really important that we focus on the remit that's appropriate. "But understandably, people voted for a whole host of other reasons. I completely get that. And I say, believe me, we are still learning the lessons of last year's election. "We will take this beating with humility, as we did last year's election, because we do need to show the public that we understand and we are still in the process of renewal. We're under new leadership, but we've got a long way to go."WATCH ABOVE.

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00:00Nigel, good morning. A long night, a very, very disappointing night for the

00:05Conservatives and obviously many, many results still left to come. Yes, I mean

00:12it has been a long night and we were bracing ourselves for a challenging

00:15night because of course many of the results that will be coming in today

00:18are based off the cycle of 2021 where we had an unprecedented victory. We got

00:2466% I think of all seats up. We were winning seats. We won the Hartlepool

00:29by-election on the same day so four years later in a very different

00:32circumstance having lost two-thirds of our MPs at last year's general

00:36election of course we were bracing ourselves for a very difficult night

00:39but we have been putting up a fight and the results are still coming in. This

00:44Greater Lincolnshire result, I mean 64,585, I mean not, you know, almost down to

00:53half of what Dame Andrea Jenkins has just taken to win that and that's

00:58something you presumably thought you could win. Well, I think reform have

01:06been forecast for quite a while to win Lincolnshire. We had an excellent

01:10candidate in Rob Waltham and I was there campaigning with him very

01:14recently. But reform through the kitchen sink and it is fertile ground

01:19in Lincolnshire. I am actually from Lincolnshire originally myself and I know

01:22in particular immigration is a major issue in Lincolnshire and reform based the

01:28campaign in Lincolnshire largely on the national issues. Now strategically that

01:32worked for them. But I think what Andrea Jenkins can do as mayor on some of the

01:38issues she has been campaigning on will prove to be quite a challenge for her.

01:41You know, these elections are about council elections, about what the council can do and the

01:46mayoral elections, about what the mayor can do. And it's really important that we

01:51focus on the remit that's appropriate. But understandably, people voted for a whole

01:55host of other reasons. I completely get that. And I say, believe me, we are still

02:00learning the lessons of last year's election. We will take this beating with

02:04humility as we did last year's election because we do need to show the public that

02:08we understand and we are still in the process of renewal. We are under new

02:11leadership, but we've got a long way to go.

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