Disaster for Rishi Sunak as Labor overthrows large Tory majorities in double by-election defeat

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Rishi Sunak suffered a devastating double blow as Labor scored back-to-back by-election victories overnight.

Hours after official figures showed Britain had fallen into recession, the Prime Minister saw Labor overturning huge Tory majorities in Kingswood and Wellingborough.

>Devastating losses will increase pressure on Mr Sunak. Conservative backbenchers worried about losing their seats in the run-up to a general election. And Reform UK's strong performance will set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street, with the party reaching 10 per cent above national polls in the by-election for the first time.

Labor's Gen Kitchen overthrew a huge Tory majority in Wellingborough

In the race in Kingswood to replace Chris Skidmore, who resigned for protest against government plans. to boost oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, Damien Egan overthrew a majority of 11,000 Conservatives, winning with a majority of 2,501 votes.

And a few hours later, in the general election