Not just beaten, but thoroughly trounced.
An 18% swing to Labour in Wakefield and a 30% swing to the Liberals in Tiverton ( a seat that has been held by the Tories for 99 years).
Theses swings make it clear there are hardly any Tory seats that can still be regarded as safe.
Tories who decided to back Johnson are surely rethinking that choice, while they do so more dirt on Johnson arrives with reports of him using senior civil servants to find jobs for his unqualified wife.
He’s an albatross around the collective Tory party neck, and the best bit, they missed their chance to get rid of him.
It’s only going to get worse for the Tories.