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British PM Rishi Sunak suffers historic by-election defeats
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LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Britain’s Labour Party dealt a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on Friday, winning two previously safe parliamentary seats in victories leader Keir Starmer said showed voters wanted change at the next national election.
The double defeat showed a big slump in support for the governing Conservatives, who have won the last four national votes, and suggests Labour is on course to win power for the first time since 2010 at an election expected next year.
They’ve had enough of the decline of the last 13 years and they are crying out for change," he said, sharing the stage in Mid-Bedfordshire, an area about 50 miles (80 km) north of London, with his new lawmaker.
Sunak, a 43-year-old former investment banker, has tried to cast himself as a bold reformer, no longer the cautious technocrat who restored some of Britain’s credibility after scandals and chaos forced his two predecessors from office.
In a speech at his party’s conference this month, Sunak sought to cast himself as a tough decision maker who was focused on reviving the economy while meeting what he said were the public’s demands of watering down steps to reach climate change targets and tackling illegal immigration.
One Conservative lawmaker said Sunak, and his finance minister Jeremy Hunt, needed a “radical rethink”, urging the government to offer tax cuts to win over voters.
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