The Tories’ defeated by-election candidate Helen Hurford took hilarious evasive action

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It’s fair to say it wasn’t a great night for Boris Johnson and the Conservative party in last night’s two by-elections. It wasn’t even a bad night. It was a disastrous night.

And it was particularly bad for Tory candidate Helen Hurford, who suffered a historic and humiliating defeat in Tiverton & Honiton in Devon, where the Conservatives suffered a record-breaking loss, losing the seat for the first time in around 130 years.

Just in case you’re not familiar with Helen Hurford’s work …

And it was so bad, in fact, that Hurford ended up doing this, according to LBC’s estimable correspondent, Theo Usherwood.

And here are our favourite things people said about that.

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To conclude …

And this.

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