yes, the conservatives managed to stem the outgoing tide from which they are seemingly suffering in uxbridge, but it seems to me there is little gainsaying the fact that the tide is still a long way out for the conservatives and they still have an awful long way to go before they look as though they might have a chance of being able to retain power. the campaigns ahead of these by elections were hard fought. the results give each party a victory, but leave some big questions, too, about who is really on the path to power ahead of the next general election. alex forsyth, bbc news. we will take you to all of those key by election areas. and we will speak to our chief political correspondent in london. but first to selby.
and pundits to analyse what these results say about the big political picture. yes, the conservatives managed to stem the outgoing tide from which they are seemingly suffering in uxbridge, but it seems to me there is little gainsaying the fact that the tide is still a long way out for the conservatives and they still have an awful long way to go before they look as though they might have a chance of being able to retain power. the campaigns ahead of these by elections were hard fought. the results give each party a victory, but leave some big questions, too, about who is really on the path to power ahead of the next general election. alex forsyth, bbc news. the liberal democrats have hailed the results as spectacular , their leader sir ed davey has been speaking in frome. in the last hour.
the fact that the tide is still a long way out for the conservatives and they still have an awful long way to go before they look as though they might have a chance of being able to retain power. the campaigns ahead of these by elections were hard fought. the results give each party a victory, but leave some big questions, too, about who is really on the path to power ahead of the next general election. alex forsyth, bbc news. the prime minister, rishi sunak has visited the constituency of uxbridge out of the conservative victory. he was interviewed by our political correspondent and here is what he had to say. prime minister, ulez has helped you win here, but in other parts of the country where you did very well in 2019, you ve been absolutely thumped.
by elections were hard fought. the results give each party a victory, but leave some big questions, too, about who is really on the path to power ahead of the next general election. we will make sense of what we have heard overnight with correspondence in all three by election areas and will speak to them throughout the morning. first to selby. david wallace lockhart. david, this is a result that labour will be really proud of, isn t it? it is. the conservatives went into this by election with a cushion of 20,000 plus majority. that is now a 4000 labour majority so a huge win for them, the biggest majority labour has ever overturned in a by election. the last time labour had swings of this size was in the run up to the 1997 general election and we all remember what happened