The Tories are celebrating tonight after Steve Barclay secured a fifth term as MP for North East Cambridgeshire. However, he saw his majority nearly halved as the Reform candidate, Chris Thornhill came a respectable second, knocking Labour into third place. Mr Barclay polled 16,246 votes, in 2019 he took 34,340. In a surprisingly earlier than anticipated announcement Fenland’s returning officer Paul Medd declared Mr Barclay the winner to the delight of the watching Conservatives. Reform polled 9,057 votes, with Labour’s Javeria Hussain taking 8,008. David Chalmers of the Liberal Democrats poll…
