Why by-elections matter – with Iain Dale & Jon Craig
Feb 21, 2026•16 min
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Episode description
Two titans of broadcasting – LBC’s Iain Dale and Sky's Jon Craig – join deputy political editor James Heale for a whistle-stop tour of British by-elections. From Oxford City in 1938 to Chesterfield in 1984 right up to Runcorn in 2025, why do by-elections matter? When have they been most significant? And are longer vote counts the product of fractured politics in the modern age?
Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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