Although the Tories lost two out of three parliamentary by-elections held yesterday, the first in Selby and Ainsty and the second in Somerton and Frome where there were huge swings against the Conservatives in hitherto safe seats, the Tories had been predicted to lose all three of them. In the event, they held on i…
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