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
overturned a 11,220 conservative majority to win. our political correspondent hannah miller sent us this report. the results are in and they are pretty much packed up here in kingswood to now. until tonight, labour haven t won in this seat since 2005, and it is a seat that with one exception has tended to vote for the party that then wins the general election. of course, by elections are not the same as when people go to the polls in a general election, but the party is using tonight to claim that the result here shows that people are ready to trust in a labour government. there was a real glint in the eye of labour people here tonight, feeling that they had put in the work for this win, and that it was one set them on the right track for the months to come. this is what the labour candidate, now the labour mp, had to say immediately after his win. today we have been knocking doors today we have been knocking doors all today we have been knocking doors all day, speaking to
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, 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 and the conservative party have suffered two major set backs and pulled off a surprise narrow win in three by elections in england. there were massive swings away from the tories 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 conservative 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 straight to westminister. samantha simmonds is there for us now. samantha. thank you
5th ofjuly, two days after that, borisjohnson said he had appointed mr pincher to a government position and had been told about a misconduct complaint against him. mrjohnson said he made a bad mistake and we, the chief whip said he should be suspended for eight weeks. we will hear more from our political correspondent. borisjohnson said at the time he had made a bad mistake and there was a lot of fury about the way mrjohnson had handled this. the report says the perception that mps can engage in such conduct with impunity does significantly impact public perception of the house and its members and we therefore recommend that mr pincher should be suspended from the service of the house for eight weeks. that is indeed a long suspension. we will get full clarification of it and anything else that is in a report from our political correspondent in just a moment or two. but this whole notion that this was part of the beginning of the end, part of the demise of borisjohnson is very
arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into the scottish national party s finances. it follows the arrest back in april, of her husband peter murrell, the former chief executive of the party, and the former treasurer, colin beattie. both were released back then without charge pending further inquiries. a spokeswoman for ms sturgeon, says the former leader has always made it clear, she ll cooperate with any investigation. let s look at nicola sturgeon s statement she released on twitter. in it she says. she goes on to say. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has the latest. yes, so a dramatic day in scotland in the developments in this ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the snp. nicola sturgeon was arrested this morning at nine minutes past ten. she was taken into custody and questioned by detectives. this was under arrangement, so it was prearranged, this interview and arrest, but she was in custody for seven hours and 15 minutes, release