5 December 2016
Following the Richmond Park by-election, attention has turned to whether the Liberal Democrats’ victory will force Theresa May to recalibrate her Government’s approach to Brexit, writes Dr Patrick Diamond. “With a Commons majority of 13, the Prime Minister’s political acumen will be tested to the limit. Yet for all the Tories’ travails, it is the Labour Party that ought to find the Richmond result most perplexing,” he says.