The Latest Breaking News from Wakefield

Last week’s byelection losses saw huge swings to the best-placed Tory opponent – without any formal electoral pact

The Prime Minister blamed an “endless churn of news” about “things I stuffed up” for this week’s disastrous by-election defeats in Tiverton and Wakefield

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard urged the Prime Minister to resign for the good of their party and the nation.

Boris Johnson has faced further calls to resign after the Conservatives lost by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, Devon

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

What would happen to the region's Conservative MPs if there was a 12.7 per cent swing to Labour

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Analysis: After Wakefield, the leader’s allies can say ‘boring’ works, but Labour is not wholly convinced

The scale of byelection defeats in Tiverton and Honiton in south-west England and Wakefield in the north of England might have Conservative rebels wishing they had waited a few weeks to hold a no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson. For the 148 MPs who voted against him, these results might have…