Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a damaging political blow on Friday as voters rejected his party in two parliamentary elections it could ordinarily have expected to win
The Conservatives lost to the resurgent Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty, a region in the north of England where the Sunak’s party had enjoyed a commanding majority. A second seat, Somerton and Frome, was won by the Liberal Democrats, a centrist party.
16% of the vote after a campaign dominated by a local issue – a planned expansion of a low-emissions zone to outer London, which imposes a tax on gasoline-fueled cars that are more than 16 years old. More worryingly for the Conservatives, Labour overturned a huge deficit in Selby, in the north of England, to win the seat with 46% of the votes.
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