Britain’s Labour Party on Friday dealt a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, winning contests for two new lawmakers in votes that indicated the opposition party was on track to win a national election later this year.
The double defeat underlined the flagging fortunes of the governing party and will do little to silence Sunak’s critics, who fear the Conservatives could be trounced at the national election and want him to change course.
The 43-year-old former investment banker has struggled to restore his party’s fortunes despite recasting himself at various points over the past year as a bold reformer, a stable technocrat and as someone who needs more time “to stick to the plan.
Reports had it that Labour overturned a hefty Conservative majority in the central English town of Wellingborough to win the parliamentary seat with over thirteen thousand votes against seven thousand votes in what polling expert John Curtice described as the governing party’s “worst ever by-election reverse.”
Addressing that threat, Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden told journalists that a vote for Reform was a vote for Labour.
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