Ben Bradley apologises unreservedly for Corbyn spy claims

[Ken Burch]

4. Bradley's constituency is extremely marginal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Based on the changes in the vote between 2015 and 2017, it appears he was ONLY able to gain the seat(prior to that, Mansfield had been Labour since 1923), it appears that the only reasons Bradley scraped through(by a little over 1,000 votes) were the collapse of the UKIP vote and the hate campaign against Jeremy carried on by both the media and by those in the PLP who kept trying to oust him as leader even AFTER the election had been called, even when they knew changing leaders was not possible and that no one who could have been put in at that time could have brought the party together and demonstrated any personal appeal to the electorate).

Absent even one of those factors, Mansfield would never have gone Tory at all.