The British Prime Minister appears even more isolated after the loss of two conservative parliamentary seats.
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Very bad news for the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson: his conservative party suffered two heavy defeats on Thursday, June 23, during partial parliamentary elections which were held simultaneously in Wakefield, in Yorkshire (northern England ), and in Tiverton and Honiton in the Devon (in the southwest).
Two slaps, which still weaken a leader shaken by a vote of confidence in early June, to whom he has just survived, and that many political commentators now consider as a stay. Friday morning, taking note of these electoral humiliations, Oliver Dowden, the president of the Tories, resigned, reinforcing doubts about the internal supports to Mr. Johnson.
Wakefield, a constituency briefly conquered by the conservatives during the 2019 general election, was recovered by Labor, who resumed their rights in an ex-industrial region commonly qualified by the experts of “Red Wall”. In the Devon, a rural land, acquired in the Tories for almost a century and an integral part of the “blue wall” (the strong conservative places), the voters preferred a Liberal Democratic candidate. The latter, Richard Foord, a 44-year-old ex-military, managed to completely reverse the steam, winning the election with 6,000 votes in advance, while his predecessor in this position, Neil Parish, had won him with A huge majority, 24,000 votes, barely three years earlier.
“This is a historical result that makes British politics tremble, enthusiastic Richard Foord on Friday morning. The Voters have spoken, they sent a clear and powerful message to Boris Johnson: he heads the country in a chaotic, negligent and shameful way, it is time for him to leave, “added the lucky elected official, so far completely unknown media.
“The country deserves better”
In Yorkshire, Labor victory was expected, but the plowing candidate, Simon Lightwood, an NHS employee, the British public health system, won with a very comfortable majority of 5,000 votes. “Wakefield voters have shown that the country has lost confidence in Boris Johnson, this vote is a clear sanction against a conservative party that no longer has energy or ideas, the country deserves better,” said Keir Starmer, the chief De File du Labor, the main opposition force to the Tories, which benefits from the “partygate”, the holiday scandal at Downing Street in full pandemic of Covid-19, and in the lead for almost six months in all the surveys of Opinion at the national level.
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