True, it is not quite up there with the recent high-profile by-elections in Clacton (Farage v Binface) or Gorton (Greens v Reform), let alone Andy Burnham‘s victory-cum-coronation in Makerfield.
But the 2026 by-election season is far from over. This Thursday, as we enter the doldrums of the bank holiday weekend, a little-noticed poll in a corner of south London may end up reverberating not just across the capital but across Britain.
For just a few thousand voters in the Trinity ward of the London Borough of Wandsworth not only have it in their grasp to restore Tory control over what was once
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