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LONDON, June 18 ― British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat when his Conservative Party lost a parliamentary by-election on the outskirts of London, just a few miles from his own seat. Since its creation in 1974, the Conservatives had comfortably held the leafy,...

LONDON, June 18 ― British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat when his Conservative Party lost a parliamentary by-election on the outskirts of London, just a few miles from his own seat.

However, in an astonishing turnaround, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats ― a centrist, pro-European Union party ― won a majority of 8,028 votes over the Conservative candidate in results announced this morning. But some have said the approach that is attracting traditional Labour voters in northern England has also alienated some of Johnson's base in the Conservatives' own strongholds.“ have been taken for granted, they feel that the Conservative Party isn't listening to them. Many of them are very happy with Boris Johnson,” Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said, referring to Labour and Conservative party colours.

 

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