The Latest Breaking News from Wakefield

The contests in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton were triggered by the resignation of disgraced Tories. The by-elections offered voters the chance to give their verdict on the Prime Minister just weeks after 41% of his own MPs cast their ballots against him.

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

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives lost the parliamentary seat of Wakefield in northern England on Friday, with voters dealing a blow to the party after months of scandals and a growing cost of living crisis.

Labour was victorious in Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats said they have overturned a 24,000 Tory majority to win in Devon.

Simon Lightwood elected as MP in symbolic victory in ‘red wall’ seat won by Conservatives in 2019

Boris Johnson may be thousands of miles away in Kigali, Rwanda, but his premiership will undoubtedly come under intense pressure as Labour shows signs of rebuilding back its so called Red Wall.

New Labour MP Simon Lightwood says party is “rebuilding red wall”

Boris Johnson insisted he was optimistic and it would be “crazy” for him to quit if the Tories lost both the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton seats.

Conservatives last lost two by-elections on the same day in 1991