Keir Starmer has hailed Labour’s “fantastic” results in the Kingswood and Wellingborough byelections after the party secured two victories which suggest the party is on course for a majority at the general election this year. The Labour leader said the gain of two relatively safe Tory seats showed voters wanted change and trusted his party to deliver it. The party secured a near-record swing of 28...

El Partido Conservador de Reino Unido ha sufrido este noche una nueva derrota en las elecciones parciales de Kingswood, en el condado de Kent (sureste de Inglaterra), y Wellingborough, en el condado de Northamptonshire (centro), donde han ganado los candidatos laboristas, asestando de ...

From Labour has claimed victory in the Kingswood and Wellingborough byelections, dealing a double blow to Rishi Sunak’s government. Labour candidate Gen Kitchen overturned a Tory majority of more than 18,000 to secure victory in Wellingborough, making it the first win for Labour in the seat since the 2001 general election. Kitchen won the seat with 13,844 votes, beating the Conservatives’ Helen Ha...

Labour has overturned an 11,000-plus Tory majority to win the byelection in the South Gloucestershire constituency of Kingswood. Damien Egan, who resigned as the mayor of Lewisham in south-east London to contest the seat even though it is being abolished at the next general election, is celebrating victory after a professional and energetic Labour campaign. He won with 11,1176 votes, to 8,675 for...

Votes are being counted in the Kingswood and Wellingborough by-elections, where Labour will be looking to capitalise on the UK entering a recession to inflict a double defeat on Rishi Sunak. The Tories are defending traditionally safe seats in South Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire, following the departures of Chris Skidmore and Peter Bone, respectively. But the polls in both seats opened on t...

Polls have opened for two crunch by-elections taking place today in Kingswood and Wellingborough. Voters in the constituencies will have until 10pm to decide who they want to be their MP following the departures of Chris Skidmore and Peter Bone. The Kingswood by-election was triggered after Mr Skidmore, a former Tory minister, quit parliament in protest at the government's green policy. In Welling...

From The headlines for much of this week might have been about the Rochdale byelection, which takes place on 29 February, but pressingly it is the final day of campaigning in the Wellingborough and the Kingswood byelections today. Here is a quick reminder of what is going on there … Wellingborough has a byelection after veteran Conservative MP Peter Bone was subject to a recall petition after a wa...

Should the Conservatives lose their two parliamentary seats in Kingswood and Wellingborough, the party will exceed its record of by-election defeats in a single parliament. There is a chance too that the party could experience its worst ever defeat to Labour, on course to capture both seats. But emerging divisions within Labour, over the conflict in the Middle East and now the ditching of the gree...

Канадский легкоатлет, который специализировался на прыжках с шестом, Шон Барбер скончался на 30-м году жизни. Такую информацию распространило агентство ТАСС. Как сообщили в пресс-службе факультета легкой атлетики Университета Акрона (американский штат Огайо), прыгун с шестом некоторое время испытывал проблемы со здоровьем и скончался в своем доме в Кингсвуде (штат Техас). Шон Барбер завоевал золот...

You might think the idea of pounding the streets and banging on doors during a cold January would not be too enticing, especially when the prize for the victor vanishes in a few months time. But Damien Egan, Labour’s candidate for the Kingswood byelection, was beaming as he marched up and down the streets of a modern housing estate at the heart of a constituency in south Gloucestershire up for gra...

The Conservatives are facing yet another set of by-elections in February, with voters in Kingswood and Wellingborough set to pick their new MPs. The contests follow the resignation of former minister Chris Skidmore in protest at the government's watering down of green policies, and the ousting of Peter Bone over allegations of bullying and sexual misconduct. Politics live: Post Office investigator...

A by-election in Kingswood, a suburban seat to the east of Bristol, is not a very attractive proposition for any aspiring candidates. That's because the constituency, where Chris Skidmore had a 11,220 majority at the last election, is being abolished at the next general election. That was a reason Mr Skidmore, an environmental crusader his critics would claim is a zealot, gave when he announced in...

Археологи намерены начать расследование, чтобы найти место, где, как говорят, более 130 лет назад был похоронен цирковой слон в городе в южном британском графстве Глостершир, пишет PA Media. Местная легенда гласит, что слониха по имени Нэнси была похоронена в Кингсвуде в 1891 году. Животное принадлежало зверинцу Бостока и Уомбвелла в качестве изюминки в его передвижном «зверином шоу». Хотя ни в ка...