LONDON, Oct 20 — Britain’s ruling Conservative Party suffered two damaging by-election defeats to Labour on Friday, boding ill for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his party’s...
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The elections were in traditionally safe Tory seats, but Labour managed to overturn huge majorities in both on a notable evening for the opposition party. However, the Conservatives’ prospects of winning another term at the next election, due before January 2025, are looking bleak after the latest blows, with voters taking out their frustrations over an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and a series of scandals.Edwards, who overturned a majority of 20,000 to win in Tamworth, said voters had sent a message that “they have had enough of this failed government that has crashed the economy and destroyed public services”.
Then-prime minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the case led to a raft of ministerial resignations that spelt the beginning of the end of his premiership.The Mid Bedfordshire poll was called when former culture secretary Nadine Dorries, a loyalist to Johnson who blames Sunak for his political downfall, quit her seat. She accused the new prime minister of having abandoned “the fundamental principles of conservatism”.
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