Pressure on PM Johnson after UK Tories suffer election upset

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Published December 17, 2021 12:37 AM

By DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that was viewed as a referendum on his government amid weeks of scandal and soaring COVID-19 infections. Liberal Democrat Helen Morgan overturned a Conservative majority of almost 23,000 votes from the last election to win Thursday’s contest in North Shropshire in northwest England. The by-election was called after the former Conservative member of Parliament resigned amid a corruption scandal. The Lib Dems are England’s third-biggest party.

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