Strange silence over Bingley by-election

I'm not surprised that there was little press coverage of the Bingley by-election for Bradford Council that took place last week. It was, of course, a small matter in the greater scheme of things.

But I can't help feeling that the silence, even in much of the local and regional media, is because it was such a poor result for the Conservatives. Their majority in a "safe" Conservative seat was halved. The only party to increase its share of the vote was Labour, by several percent. An inconvenient truth, perhaps?