The losses suggest the electoral coalition the British prime minister brought together at the 2019 national election may be fracturing.
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was defeated in two parliamentary byelections on Friday, prompting the resignation of the party’s chairman and renewing speculation about the future of Britain’s embattled leader.
“Yesterday’s parliamentary byelections are the latest in a run of very poor results for our party. Our supporters are distressed and disappointed by recent events, and I share their feelings,” Mr Dowden said in a resignation letter to Mr Johnson. Winning Lib Dem candidate Richard Foord said in his victory speech that Johnson should “go, and go now”.
In the separate parliamentary seat of Wakefield in northern England, the opposition Labour party also defeated the Conservatives.“Wakefield has shown the country has lost confidence in the Tories. This result is a clear judgment on a Conservative Party that has run out of energy and ideas,” Labour leader Keir Starmer said in a statement.