This week's dual by-election defeat saw Labour overturn a Tory majority in the northern red wall seat of Wakefield with a 12% swing. Queen Mary’s Politics Professor Tim Bale wrote for the Financial Times: "So spectacular was the Liberal Democrats’ win in Tiverton and Honiton that it risks obscuring the significance of Labour’s supposedly so-so win in Wakefield."
This was covered in the Financial Times, Mirror, BBC: The World Tonight