Reform UK makes gains as Tory losses mount in double by-election

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Right-wing challenger Reform UK achieved its best by-election results to date. Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg lamented his party's performance and warned it should "learn lessons" from the drubbing. .

Richard Tice's party secured double-digit vote shares in Wellingborough and Kingswood overnight, with the party leader calling it a "defining moment" which showed that the Reform Party was now a "significant force in British politics". and that people should take us seriously. »

The Conservatives faced two crushing by-election results overnight, as Labor overthrew huge Tory majorities in Kingswood and Wellingborough. In both ridings, the Reform Party won the third largest share of the vote.

In the Kingswood race, Damien Egan overturned a majority of 11,000 Conservatives, winning with a majority of 2 501 votes.

The Wellingborough by-election saw disgraced former Conservative MP Peter Bone replaced by Labor's Gen Kitchen, who received 13,844 votes to beat the Conservatives by more than 6,000.

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The votes came just hours after the country was officially plunged into a technical recession, as the country's economy contracted for the fourth consecutive quarter.

The Prime Minister faces the most difficult week of his mandate as the country faces an economic recession and his party lost two seats. during the by-elections

Mr. Tice told the Telegraph: “We're excited, we're the party that's on the rise and it's clear that more and more people are looking for something different.”

The reform had been announced...