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Defeat. normally we wouldn't cover by-elections, but why do you think this is so important here? >> reporter: yes. i never thought that on international news we'd need to talk about a by-election, but we are doing that because this is an indication of what boris johnson's credibility is like, his authority is like, his power and his ability right now because this was a conservative seat that's been held by the party for 200 years. and yesterday in a shock election, it went to a liberal democratic candidate that won by 6,000 -- nearly 6,000 seats. they used to have in the last election a 25,000...