welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start here in the uk, where rishi sunak has suffered two stunning set backs and a surprising hold in three by elections in england. there were massive swings away from the conservatives in the two defeats, and the main political parties have been taking stock of what the results mean. there were celebrations for labour in the north yorkshire seat of selby and ainsty the party overturning a majority of more than 20,000 votes. there was an even bigger percentage swing for the liberal democrats in the south west, taking somerton and froome, overturning a 19,000 majority. but the tories held on to borisjohnson s former constituency of uxbridge and south ruislip in west london winning by just a95 votes. let s go live to westminster and samantha simmonds. thank you. let s get more reaction now from all of those by election constituencies with our correspondents. we ve gotjona
and ainsty. big swing to the lib dems in somerton and frome. with an interesting, friendly acknowledgement by the lib dem candidate and winner of tactical voting, big part of the story. and uxbridge and ruislip, dominated by ulez. we had an amazing phone in on ulez. we had an amazing phone in on ulez a couple of weeks ago. the tories hung on by theirfingertips. who really won the spoils here. a mixed picture, or is actually a very clear picture, there is a bit of blurring on the edge by a local issue, kicking for khan and a bruising for sunak. or is there, for the tories, just a scintilla of hope? contact michael on the phones, 85058 on the texts, get in touch. 08085 909693 on the phones. here is deena campbell with the news. the conservatives have suffered two heavy defeats in yesterday s by elections. labour overturned a majority of more than 20,000 votes in the north yorkshire seat of selby and ainsty. the lib dems took the somerset seat of somerton and frome, overturni
elected as the mp for the area in which i was born, raised, and built a family in and to represent my home is a huge honour. the pundits expected labour to win big here, but our community came together, and i am thankful to them and the hundreds of activists that came out to deliver this message. this wasn t the campaign labour expected, and keir starmer and his mayor, sadiq khan, need to sit up and listen to the uxbridge and south ruislip residents. thank you. 0ur polling expert, sirjohn curtice, gave us his views on labour failing to take uxbridge. 0n the labour side we can sit too contrary argument is emerging. 0n the one hand leadership may want to say it is a clear warning. if we start talking about increasing spending and increasing taxes then we are at risk of losing what we have god. 0n the other hand, others will say if enthusiasm for the labour party is so thin that a local issue like this could upend what should have been a successful victory campaign, then maybe
of the women s world cup. hello. i m victoria valentine. we start here in the uk. and the results of three key parliamentary by elections. has lost two of the three seats it was defending. in selby and annsty in north yorkshire labour made history overturning a 20,137 vote majority, what s believed to be the biggest ever by election swing to the party. the liberal democrats won the somerton and frome seat from the conservative by more than 11,000 votes. the conservatives narrowly held off labour by a95 votes to hold former prime minister, boris johnson s seat of uxbridge and south ruislip in london. 0ur correspondent vincent mcaviney has the story of the night. for the first time in 11 years, three by election ballots were being counted on the same night across england. all three of these constituencies were won by the conservatives at the 2019 general election, but two were triggered as a result of boris johnson s fall from office. in west london, the former prime stood down