Rishi Sunak visits Uxbridge with new MP after Tories survive 5.9% swing to Labour

Rishi Sunak has pledged to “double down” on his existing policies to win over voters after suffering two by-election defeats in what were safe Conservative seats.

Labour won in Selby and Ainsty and the Liberal Democrats in Somerton and Frome, both overturning majorities of about 20,000 in what polling experts said spelled “deep electoral trouble” for the Tories.

But the Prime Minister used a slender victory in Boris Johnson’s former seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip to argue that the next general election is not a “done deal”.

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