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

    I don’t know any, I even know some rich people who used to vote tory who don’t any more. I know a lot of people who tell me they exist but that they are just “shy”.

    I’m not saying it’s true that the elections are rigged, they probably aren’t, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to question it knowing the character and form of the government.

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      I know some, they aren’t all rich, some of them actually work for a living believe it or not.