Boris Johnson faced a major blow in conservatives core constituencies in the by-election. Tories lost Tiverton and Haniton seats in southwest England on Thursday.
Pollsters said the Tiverton and Honiton race was tight, but Liberal Democrats won the election with a margin of more than 6,000 votes.
Rural Tiverton and Haniton were the core constituencies of Tories for decades however, Wakefield is a northern district is a Labours core constituency that the Tories won in 2019 from Labour. But Wakefield seat also went from the Johnson party to Labour in this by-election as the previous Conservative legislator resign after his conviction of sexual abuse.
The newly elected Liberal Democrat Richard Foord, legislator of Tiverton and Haniton said after winning the by-election that “The people of Tiverton and Honiton have spoken for Britain,” “They sent a loud and clear message: It’s time for Boris Johnson to go, and go now,” he added.
The Labour Party had been out of the rule for a decade in Wakefield. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said it shows that the party “is back on the side of working people, winning seats where we lost before, and ready for government.”
After the result of the by-election, the implications of major defeat seemed early on Friday when the Conservative Party Chairman Oliver Dowden quit his post in the morning. He said the party “cannot carry on with business as usual.”
He also said, “ Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office.”
Now it is harder for Boris Johnson to reside in office as his party members are trying to change the confidence vote rule system and had moved a no-confidence motion against him in parliament that he won on 6 June.
A Tory MP Andrew Bridgend has uncovered that he is standing for the executive role of the 1922 Committee with the hope of changing the no-confidence vote rule system. He said in an interview with GB News presenter Tom Harwood that “I think if the Committee is of such a composition that would indicate then the party is ready for another vote of no confidence again.”
