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
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