UK Conservatives lose two seats but hold on to Uxbridge (archive.is)

submitted 1 year ago by GreyShack@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on Friday suffered two crushing UK parliamentary by-election defeats but averted a “3-0” drubbing by unexpectedly holding on to Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat.

The grave problems facing the British prime minister were highlighted when the opposition Labour party secured its biggest-ever by-election win in the once-safe Tory seat of Selby and Ainsty in Yorkshire.

Earlier the centrist Liberal Democrats demolished a massive Tory majority to win the seat of Somerton and Frome, opening up a dangerous new front for Sunak in the Tory heartlands of England’s South West.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] mark@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Fantastic result for the Lib Dems! And it wasn't even close. A new majority of 11000. This has got to give so much confidence going into next year that they can pick up lots of seats.

[-] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

At the very least, it means the Tories will have some serious headaches about which seats to put resources in to. Good news for any opposition party!

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

And from the interviews with voters I've heard, there was a lot of tactical voting going on - a lot people will vote for whoever can get the Tories out.

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lib Dems turning a 19,000 Tory majority into an 11,000 Lib Dem majority in a Leave-voting rural seat

Labour almost overturning the 7,000 majority in the London seat of a disgraced former PM

Do Labour just have no idea how to do by-elections? They should have won Uxbridge with their eyes closed.

[-] G4Z@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah you are so right, and I don't buy the ULEZ excuse either, nobody is excited for vote for Keith, are they?

this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023

35 points (100.0% liked)

UK Politics

3063 readers

177 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk