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

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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.

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[–] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oops! I meant Boris!

Will edit to reflect that.

The air is cleaner, and there's less traffic. Underground was terrible when I was a kidd.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries, I guessed that's what you meant.

I was referring to how ULEZ was initially announced by Boris in 2015. Boris is awful, but that doesn't mean every idea he had was awful.

[–] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I think the bikes were a good idea.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bikes were actually Ken Livingstone's idea...

[–] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Were they? So boris nicked them as well? Shouldnt be surreally.