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David Bond

Liberal Democrats win in Tiverton and Honiton biggest in by-election history

Richard Foord after winning by-election

(Picture: REUTERS)

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said his party’s historic victory in the traditional Tory stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton showed it was time for Boris Johnson to quit.

The Lib Dems produced another major shock, overturning the biggest majority in by-election history, to win the rural Devon seat which has voted Conservative ever since it was formed in 1997.

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