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URGENT  Johnson's UK Conservatives lose two parliamentary by-elections
London, June 24, 2022 (AFP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his ruling Conservatives suffered two crushing parliamentary by-election defeats Friday, including in a seat in southwest England previously held by the party for over a century.
The Tories lost the Tiverton and Honiton seat to the centrist Liberal Democrats while the main opposition Labour party took back the Wakefield constituency in northern England, ...