'Monumental, humiliating': Nicola Sturgeon's verdict on Tory by-election misery

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives for First Minster's Questions. Photograph: PA

LOSSES in two by-elections have been a “monumental, massive, humiliating vote of no confidence” in the Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The Tories lost the Wakefield seat in West Yorkshire to Labour and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon to the Liberal Democrats – the latter by a swing of nearly 30% – on Thursday.