and h totally get that. but in another blow to the prime minister, the conservative party chairman resigned straight after the by election results saying someone must take responsibilty. the labour leader sir keir starmer says the tories are imploding . with the prime minister out of the country in rwanda, we ll be asking if this is a moment of political peril for borisjohnson. also this lunchtime: ukrainain troops ordered to retreat from the key eastern city of severodonetsk. figures just out show another big rise in the number of covid infections in the uk 1.7 million people had the virus last week. and welcome back to worthy farm after three years, it s the long awaited return of glastonbury. coming up on the bbc news channel can emma raducanu repeat her us open championship exploits at wimbledon? she ll face belgian alison van uytvanck in the first round. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson says he will keep going as prime minister, despite the double blow of l
after a famous by election victory, there is no disguising the delight among liberal democrats here in devon. it s great to be in the liberal democrat seat of tiverton and honiton! applause they ve overturned a colossal majority to win the seat for the first time in a century, and their leader says he knows why. people on the doorstep were telling us that they think we can t have in our great country a prime minister who s not decent, who s not fit, who s a lawbreaking, lying prime minister and who is dishonest. how much was this a protest vote against the prime minister? it was two things. there were people who were voting against the prime minster, i ve made that very clear, but there were people who were voting positive for the liberal democrats. 4000 miles away in rwanda the prime minister is
tory territory. and many conservative mps will be looking at their majorities this morning nervously and asking themselves, not for the first time, is boris johnson for the first time, is borisjohnson still the for the first time, is boris johnson still the best person to lead them into the next general election? well, we could march on downing street, what do you think? cheering a big result for the liberal democrats but it also raises big questions about the prime minister s future. nick eardley, bbc news, tiverton. as we heard from nick there, it was a double defeat for the conservatives last night. they also lost the wakefield by election in west yorkshire to labour. the tories had won the constituency at the last general election one of the so called red wall seats. well, our political correspondent iain watson is there. iain. against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis and the fact that four out of ten of borisjohnson s own in these who want him to go, it is not
uytvanck in the first round. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson says he will keep going as prime minister, despite the double blow of losing two by elections in one night. the conservative party chairman oliver dowden resigned immediately, saying, someone must take responsibility. the labour leader sir keir starmer said the tories are imploding . let s just take a look at the results. in tiverton and honiton, the liberal democrats won by more than 6,000 votes. they overturned the previous tory majority of 2a,000 that s the biggest majority ever overturned at a by election. meanwhile, labour