After two by-election defeats in one night, the Conservatives are now without one if it's co-chairs.
The by-election results follow months of criticism of the prime minister over parties in Downing Street during lockdown.
Some have expressed support, with Deputy PM Dominic Raab saying the government needed to be "relentlessly focused on delivery". A Conservative source called the result in Tiverton and Honiton "disappointing but not unexpected", telling the BBC the party was confident it could retake the seat at the next general election.Not just any resignation letter. But the party chairman. Until now, at least, utterly loyal to Boris Johnson.So, does he have confidence in Mr Johnson? He and his team are silent.Labour's return to seats like Wakefield it could once nonchalantly bank.
In Wakefield, where a Labour victory had been largely expected, the party's candidate, Simon Lightwood, won by 4,925 votes. "And the sooner the better," he added, "because the country voted yesterday, in both by-elections, no confidence in this out-of-touch, out-of-ideas government."But Mr Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "My view is that the by-elections, both of them, were the result of the perfect storm of very difficult local scenarios."
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