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By-election defeats pile pressure on Boris Johnson’s leadership

The Prime Minister was forced to defend his premiership at a Commonwealth leaders summit 4,000 miles away in Rwanda.

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

The time is ripe for an anti-Tory alliance

Brief letters: Caroline Lucas for leader | Last wishes | Hotel Rwanda | Drawing lines | Going, going…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

'People are fed up with Boris' - voters hit out after Tory by-election defeats

Labour regained Wakefield from the Tories, while the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority to take Tiverton and Honiton in the Tories' southern heartlands

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022

'Boris Johnson's a nailed-on loser - voters see through his lies and want a fresh start'

'Keir Starmer and Ed Davey should pray that Tory MPs are stupid enough to save Johnson, Labour and the Lib Dems' best electoral asset,' writes the Mirror's Kevin Maguire

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022

These byelection defeats are the verdict on a cruel and useless government that’s running out of road

Losses in Tiverton & Honiton and in Wakefield are more than midterm blues. They’re a sign of the anti-Tory majority getting its act together, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

If the Tories had any decency, they would get out of the way – Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer celebrated the party’s by-election victory in Wakefield.

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

Keir Starmer: Wakefield win shows Labour on track for government

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party’s triumph in the Yorkshire red wall seat of Wakefield showed he was on course to win the next general election.

Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2022

Friday briefing: Party chair resigns after catastrophic results for Tories

In today’s newsletter: devastating results for the Conservatives in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton intensify questions over the prime minister’s future

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

Tories handed ‘wake-up call’ with double defeat in Tiverton and Wakefield by-elections

Lib Dem win in Devon represents the largest majority ever overturned at by-election

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

Boris Johnson suffers brutal double by-election defeat as voters abandon Tories

Disastrous by-election defeats in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton will pile pressure on Boris Johnson, who has been trying to restore his battered premiership after he clung on in a no confidence vote

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022