Earlier this month, The Conservatives won a seat from the Liberal Democrats in the Longstanton by-election. Cheers were heard as Tom Bygott won one of the two ward seats on South Cambridgeshire District Council.
Conservative activists and volunteers campaigned tirelessly against proposals from the Greater Cambridge Partnership for a new daily road charge in Cambridge to fund a revamped bus network.
Cllr Bygott said: “The one top thing that needs to come out of this is the congestion charge stopped. Most people talking about it on the doorstep do not want to pay £5 a day to go to Cambridge".
Anthony Browne, the Conservative MP in South Cambridgeshire, congratulated his party colleague on his win.
“Huge congratulations to new Conservative councillor Tom Bygott, who won the seat for Longstanton, Northstowe and Oakington from the Liberal Democrats yesterday, and to Khadijeh Zargar, who managed to massively increase her vote share,” he said.
“This is without doubt a major political earthquake in South Cambridgeshire. The Liberal Democrats took about 70 per cent of votes in the ward in the May elections just six months ago, but their vote share has since dropped 39 per cent and they lost the seat"
“It is the most spectacular collapse of support in such a short time. This is the first by-election gain for the Conservatives in South Cambs at least since 2014".
