Elections were held on Thursday for three English constituencies after Conservative MPs resigned. There’s a new “baby” in Westminster
An election night of disappointment for British conservatives in the UK. In the early elections in three constituencies, the party led by incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lost two of the three parliamentary seats at stake.
In the Greater London area, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson only managed to retain Conservative Party representation in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
Steve Tugwell (45.1% of the vote) narrowly won by just 495 votes over Labour’s Danny Beales (43.5%), who was confident of taking the seat once held by Bojo.
Labor and the victorious “Tories” blame Peels’ failure on the expansion policy of Ultra Low Emissions Zones (ULEZ), including Uxbridge and South Ruislip, imposed by London Labor Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Those who do not respect the strict limits must pay 12.50 pounds (14.4 euros) a day to get around these areas. Danny Beales tried to distance himself from the extension, saying it was “not the right time” to impose it, but did not win the vote.
“Everyone wants clean air, but for some, the economy is in shambles because the Conservatives have destroyed it and fueled the cost of living crisis, making it the wrong time to introduce a charge to ULEZ,” said Labor Minister Steve Reid, who serves as “shadow justice minister”.
British Parliament’s New “Baby”
In Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire, in the north of England, the vote fell to the Labor Party, which leads the opposition in the United Kingdom, and now has the new “baby” of Westminster.
25-year-old Keir Mather became the youngest British MP with 16,456 votes (45.9%) over Conservative Claire Holmes (34.3%) by more than four thousand “crosses”.
In Somerton and Frome, in the county of Somerset in south-west England, Liberal Democrat Sarah Dyke won (54.6%), with Conservative Fay Burbick just over half the vote (26.24%).
The outcome of these elections, with the resignation of three conservative MPs, proves a rout for Rishi Sunak’s party, the first Conservative leader to lose three seats in a single night of local elections since 1968, and if the current prime minister is not as historic as once thought.
