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The Standard View: Boris Johnson must act now to regain voters’ trust

The Conservative Party has just experienced three shocking losses. The first came in the hitherto safe seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, where the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 majority.

The second was in the red wall seat of Wakefield, as Labour regained the constituency it had lost in 2019 with a swing of 12.7 per cent, which if replicated at a general election, would deliver Sir Keir Starmer an overall majority.

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