Boris Johnson has vowed that he will “keep going” as prime minister despite the Conservative Party’s crushing double by-election defeat in Wakefield and Tiverton & Honiton.
In West Yorkshire, Labour’s Simon Lightwood defeated Tory Nadeem Ahmed to replace the disgraced Imran Ahmad Khan while, in Devon, Liberal Democrat Richard Foorde overturned a Conservative majority of 24,000 to beat Helen Hurford to the seat previously held by Neil Parish, who was forced to step down after being caught streaming pornography on his phone in the House of Commons.
