Tories suffer worst Peterborough election result since 1886 - Sky News claims it's not that bad

The Conservative Party suffered their worst election result in Peterborough since 1886, with their vote share plummeting by a staggering 25.5% to finish in third place behind Labour and the Brexit Party in yesterday's Peterborough by-election.

However, despite the results clearly being an absolute catastrophe for Theresa May's Tories, Sky News presenter Beth Rigby didn't seem to agree.

As the results were announced, Rigby inexplicably tweeted that the Tories losing 15k votes was somehow "not a collapse of the Tory vote":

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1136800469697908736

Unsurprisingly, many were quick to question her wisdom:

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1136805289137790976

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1136805117381009409

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1136804583634800640

https://twitter.com/PlasFron/status/1136804066993025025

https://twitter.com/markydh/status/1136809350620753920

https://twitter.com/Human104838771/status/1136878073842982912

Murdoch's Sky News at its very finest.