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British PM Sunak Suffers Two Big Defeats in UK Special Elections
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0:59Now PlayingRishi Sunak’s Conservative Party suffered two thumping electoral defeats in different corners of England, underlining the struggle he faces to win over voters ahead of a national poll expected next year.
The opposition Labour Party took Selby and Ainsty, which is close to Sunak’s own seat in North Yorkshire, with a historic 24 percentage point swing, while the Liberal Democrats grabbed Somerton and Frome in the southwest with an even larger swing of 29 points.
A whitewash was narrowly averted when the Conservatives unexpectedly held off Labour in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Boris Johnson’s former seat on the outskirts of London, by 495 votes after a recount.
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