The Conservatives held onto the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency in the General Election. Patrick Spencer, who was a senior adviser at the Department of Education, won 15,144 votes, 4,290 more than the Labour runner-up, Kevin Craig, who secured 10,854 — Mr Craig was suspended from his Party last month after betting against himself to lose the election. Mr Spencer is now the third Tory to represent the constituency, which was blue between 1997 and April 2024, when the previous MP, Dr Dan Poulter, defected to the Labour Party. He said he was delighted and excited to take on the rol…