UK’s Conservatives suffer defeat in ‘blue wall’ seat
Associated PressLONDON — In a surprising result, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has been easily defeated in a special election for a seat that it has held for decades. Her party leader, Ed Davey, said the result sent a “shockwave through British politics” by showing that the “blue wall” of Conservative seats in southern England could be vulnerable. The Conservatives have made big inroads into Labour’s “red wall” in recent years, winning a swathe of seats on a combination of factors, notably Johnson’s insistence that he would ensure that Britain leaves the European Union after years of parliamentary haggling. Johnson denied that he was neglecting the party’s traditional base and said there were “particular circumstances” at play in Chesham and Amersham. “In remain-voting, middle-class seats in the south of England, the Conservative coalition has been weakened to some degree in the wake of Brexit, and the Liberal Democrats are the party that in many instances are best-placed to profit from that, and that’s what they’ve managed to do in Chesham and Amersham,” polling expert John Curtice told the BBC.
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