Britain’s governing party avoids wipeout in special polls seen as test of public support before next year’s general elections.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s governing Conservative Party has lost two strategically important parliamentary seats in a trio of special elections, but avoided a wipeout after holding onto former Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s seat in suburban London.
Though the main opposition Labour Party and the smaller centrist Liberal Democrats overturned massive Conservative majorities to win a seat apiece, the Conservatives found some comfort in their narrow success in Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London.