Rishi Sunak has avoided a clean sweep of by-election defeats after holding onto Uxbridge and South Ruislip in a night of three votes
Early on in the night, the Conservatives were playing down the likelihood they would hold any of the three seats.
The Conservatives' expectation management appears to have worked for them - and they can now claim the election win in Boris Johnson's old seat as a victory, a rare win for a government in a by-election, and a condemnation of Sir Keir as a leader.issue that dominated Uxbridge and South Ruislip does not represent the feeling across the UK.
"We know that the Conservatives crashing the economy has hit working people hard, so it's unsurprising that the ULEZ expansion was a concern for voters here in a by-election."He said:"I think the winning Conservative candidate just said it, didn't he? He said that if it wasn't for ULEZ, he believes Labour would have won this by-election.
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