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Sir Keir Starmer says Labour can now win anywhere – but Rishi Sunak insists his party is still in the game after three very different by-elections. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Labour secured a massive 23.7% swing from the Tories in Selby, with its 25-year-old candidate Keir Mather winning by 4,000 votes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Lib Dems overturned a big Tory majority to take Somerset and Frome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the Tories narrowly held on to Boris Johnson’s old seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n- Chris Mason: Little comfort for Tories in bad night at polls<\/li>\n
- Keir Mather – Labour’s newest MP and ‘baby of the House’<\/li>\n
- Khan backs Ulez after Starmer by-election criticism<\/li>\n
- Labour seeks to iron out policy disagreements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Labour leadership blamed their failure to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip by 495 votes on the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez)- a charge for the most polluting vehicles – to outer London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The winning Conservative candidate, Steve Tuckwell, said Sadiq Khan’s “damaging and costly Ulez policy” had lost Labour the seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir Keir Starmer said Labour’s Mayor of London needed to “reflect” on the policy, but stopped short of saying it should be scrapped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also attributed the Conservative win to voter anger over Ulez – and claimed the result showed the next general election was not a “done deal”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr Sunak said: “When people are confronted with a real choice, a choice on a matter of substance, they vote Conservative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“That’s what the general election is going to be about.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n