British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party defeated in pair of by-elections
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was defeated in two parliamentary by-elections on Friday, prompting the resignation of the party’s chairman and renewing speculation about the future of Britain’s embattled leader.
Johnson has come under intense pressure to resign after he was fined for breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules after a police investigation into gatherings at his Downing Street offices. “Yesterday’s parliamentary by-elections are the latest in a run of very poor results for our party. Our supporters are distressed and disappointed by recent events, and I share their feelings,” Dowden said in a resignation letter to Johnson.
The Conservatives lost a majority of more than 24,000 votes in Tiverton and Honiton, in a deeply Conservative part of southwest England, defeated by the centrist Liberal Democrats who secured a majority of more than 6,000. “With every day Boris Johnson clings to office, he brings further shame, chaos and neglect,” he said.
“Wakefield has shown the country has lost confidence in the Tories. This result is a clear judgment on a Conservative Party that has run out of energy and ideas,” Labour leader Keir Starmer said in a statement.
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