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Sunak avoids triple by-election defeat after Tories hold Uxbridge

21 July 2023

3:18 PM

21 July 2023

3:18 PM

Rishi Sunak has narrowly avoided three by-election losses. Overnight, the Conservatives lost Somerton and Frome to the Liberal Democrats, overturning a majority of 19,213 to lead by 11,008 votes, and Selby and Ainsty to Labour, with Keir Starmer’s party overturning its largest ever majority at a by-election in post-war history.

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