A mundane leisure centre packed with tense political hopefuls, eager election officials and sugar-fuelled TV crew can make for great drama.
A bout of
, getting a speeding fine and a young man behind me - unbeknown to me - baring his backside at the camera while I was broadcasting live. These are just some of the perils I've encountered covering by-election counts in more than 20 years at Sky News. Mid Bedfordshire, on Thursday, will be number 40. My colleague Tamara Cohen will be at Tamworth. There have been dramas and shocks too, as well as jubilation for the winners and despair and tears for the losers.
struck after the Hartlepool by-election in 2021 - 'Red Wall ' indeed - and I copped a speeding fine leaving the Henley count in the by-election after Boris Johnson became London mayor in 2008. The bare buttocks appeared on Sky News during a live broadcast in Eastleigh town centre after a by-election there in 2013, prompting frantic shouts of 'Hand back! Hand back!' in my ear from the gallery. 'Why?' I asked when I eventually did.
but didn't realise until the following Monday, wasn't just another by-election that Labour expected to win, but was such a slow count that the result wasn't declared until after 7am, the latest declaration in my 20 years attending overnight counts. 'And it's live!' The extreme sadness came at three by-election counts. Tooting in 2016, after Sadiq Khan succeeded Boris Johnson as London mayor, came on the day Jo Cox was murdered in her Batley and Spen constituency.
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