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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sammy Gecsoyler

Polls open for two byelections in testing times for Tories and Labour

Keir Starmer joins Labour's parliamentary candidate Gen Kitchen at the home of AFC Rushden and Diamonds, in Rushden, Northamptonshire
Keir Starmer will hope the Wellingborough candidate Gen Kitchen, right, delivers a Labour victory. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Polls have opened in the Wellingborough and Kingswood byelections, seen as a final chance for Rishi Sunak to buck predictions that his party is heading for a landslide defeat at the next general election.

The Conservatives are defending majorities of more than 18,000 in Wellingborough in Northants and 11,000 in Kingswood in South Gloucestershire.

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