Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on Friday suffered two crushing UK parliamentary by-election defeats but averted a “3-0” drubbing by unexpectedly holding on to Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat.

The grave problems facing the British prime minister were highlighted when the opposition Labour party secured its biggest-ever by-election win in the once-safe Tory seat of Selby and Ainsty in Yorkshire.

Earlier the centrist Liberal Democrats demolished a massive Tory majority to win the seat of Somerton and Frome, opening up a dangerous new front for Sunak in the Tory heartlands of England’s South West.

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    1 year ago

    Lib Dems turning a 19,000 Tory majority into an 11,000 Lib Dem majority in a Leave-voting rural seat

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    Labour almost overturning the 7,000 majority in the London seat of a disgraced former PM

    Do Labour just have no idea how to do by-elections? They should have won Uxbridge with their eyes closed.

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      Yeah you are so right, and I don’t buy the ULEZ excuse either, nobody is excited for vote for Keith, are they?