By-election

The by-election follows the formal resignation of Devon Conservative MP Neil Parish in May.

BORIS JOHNSON is braced for a double defeat as the polls close in the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections.

Please feel free to get in touch with me as I work if you have a story or tips to share! Good evening I'm Francesca Edwards, I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments on the by-election results.. It is either four more years of Boris Johnson, or a strong local champion in a Liberal Democrat MP.” Please feel free to get in touch with me as I work if you have a story or tips to share! Good evening I'm Jack Walters, I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments on the by-election results.. The Tiverton and Honiton by-election is "neck and neck", according to the Lib Dems whilst Sir Keir Starmer hopes to win by the Wakefield seat after it fell to the Tories in 2019. Both seats were held by Conservatives before the by-elections were triggered with results expected to come in overnight. “Never in the history of British politics has a majority this big been overturned in a by-election. Commenting on polls closing in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said Richard Foord can an "energetic and inspiring campaign" against a Conservative party which has "taken the people of Devon for granted2. In contrast, the rural Devon seat of Tiverton & Honiton has been a safe Conservative seat for almost a century. BORIS JOHNSON is braced for a double defeat as the polls close in the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections. The Conservative Party gained Wakefield and retained Tiverton & Honiton in the 2019 general election.

Votes are being counted in two by-elections triggered by the resignations of disgraced Tory MPs. At 10pm on Thursday, the polls closed for by-elections in ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The former leader of the Lib Dems said the prime minister is a “gambler” mindset and could call an election for the autumn to “to avoid an even worse situation” for his government. Labour are hoping to overturn a Conservative majority in Wakefield of just over 3,000, and the Lib Dems would need to overturn a Tory majority of more than 24,000 in Tiverton & Honiton. In Tiverton & Honiton, Neil Parish quit after admitting to watching pornography on his phone in the House of Commons on two separate occasions. PM Boris Johnson said he is “full of optimism and buoyancy” ahead of the results of the by-elections. Also in May, Neil Parish quit as MP for Tiverton & Honiton after admitting to watching pornography on his phone in the House of Commons on two separate occasions.

Boris Johnson's Conservative party faces voters in two very different parliamentary seats on Thursday, an election test that, if lost, ...

"Are you crazy?" Bookmakers expect the Conservatives to lose both. However, his popularity has plummeted since, with his fine for breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules and a mounting cost of living crisis among the issues cited by voters in the two electoral districts.

The polls are regarded as a key test for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership after 148 of his own MPs voted against him in a confidence vote.

We've said throughout this campaign this is a huge mountain to climb. The polls are regarded as a key test for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership after 148 of his own MPs voted against him in a confidence vote. The polls are regarded as a key test for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership after 148 of his own MPs voted against him in a confidence vote.

Voters are choosing their next MP after Tory Neil Parish quit and it's too close to call.

Tiverton voters have been having their say on the crunch vote in the constituency tomorrow. A replacement for Neil Parish, who resigned after he admitted watching pornography in the House of Commons, will be decided next Thursday [23 June], with the Conservatives defending a 24,000-plus majority. It was sweltering in Honiton on the eve of the by-election vote. Gill Westcott is one of eight people standing to replace former Conservative MP Neil Parish, with voters going to the polls on Thursday [23 June]. The latest polling for the Liberal Democrats in Tiverton and Honiton suggested they and the Conservatives were neck-and-neck on 45 per cent each. The party said on Twitter: "Voters have the chance Today to really vote for something different. Polling stations for the by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton & Honiton will be open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday, with the results expected between 4am and 6am on Friday. However it is remarkable that the Liberal Democrats look like they will significantly eat into the very large Conservative majority in the seat, and this does send a signal about people’s views on the Government’s behaviour and actions. It would also be smaller than the 25.2 point swing in the Chesham & Amersham by-election in June 2021, which again saw the Liberal Democrats take the seat from the Tories. He filed this report via Twitter, including footage of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates casting their votes. He represented the constituency since 2010 and had a majority of more than 24,000 over Labour at the General Election in 2019. Labour are poised to regain the seat, which they lost in 2019.

Voters in Bampton, Shillingford and Clayhanger are among those voting in the by-election.

In all there are eight candidates on the ballot. Voters in places like Bampton, Shillingford and Petton and Clayhanger have been heading to the polls to cast their vote in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election. Voters head to the polls in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election

Despite a call to arms from local Tory chairman, not a single Conservative supporter shows up for last-gasp 5am push for votes, but Lib Dem activists are up ...

After all they’ve got a massive 24,239 majority to rely on, and they may believe that even the mid-term by-election bandits can’t overcome that. There’s are thousands of leaflets and dozens of unused boards and stakes to stick them on, but there’s no one around to deliver any of it. They will then begin knocking on those doors to get as many people as they can to go and vote, “preferably for us”, say another volunteer, Jack.

Voters have been going to the polls all day and now counting is starting - follow our live blog for updates through the night.

It’s also a little known duty of the Returning Officer to keep the core team well fuelled. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure over the results of both the Wakefield vote and a another by election taking part in Tiverton and Honiton, Devon, but today has refused to resign if the Conservatives lose the seats. Under current Conservative rules, Mr Johnson is safe from a new vote in his leadership for a year. you know, we hadn’t won Hartlepool for, I can’t remember when the Tory party last won Hartlepool – a long time. Mr Johnson added: “Come on, it was only a year ago that we won the Hartlepool by-election, that everybody thought was… Media are gathering to cover the results when they come in, but a final declaration is not expected until between 4am and 6am on Friday. If I don't vote today it'll be the first time I've ever not voted’” Polling stations are open now until 10pm tonight for Wakefield constituency residents to vote in the Wakefield by-election.— Wakefield Council (@MyWakefield) It's a beautiful day in Wakefield today, as these photos of voters making their way to the polling stations show: It's a beautiful day in Wakefield today, as these photos of voters making their way to the polling stations show: "I feel like whoever it is nothing ever changes and nothing ever gets done. Campaigners and candidates are making the most of their final opporunity to get voters on their side today - and making sure their supporters get to the polling stations.

Panel investigating US Capitol attack told how legal officials threatened to quit in tense Oval Office meeting.

During the public hearing on Thursday afternoon, former Assistant Attorney General Richard Donoghue said he once spent 90 minutes debunking Trump's false claims ...

Besides Donoghue and Rosen, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel also testified in the hearing that was focused on Trump pressuring the Justice Department to overturn the election results. In addition, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told Trump that the department was not able to ‘snap its fingers and change the results of the election’. Former President Donald Trump told Justice Department officials to ‘just say that the election was corrupt’ and to leave the rest to him, according to testimony in the fifth January 6 committee hearing.

Top officials at the Justice Department testified on Thursday that then-President Donald Trump put enormous pressure on them in near-daily phone calls and ...

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Ex-president told officials to declare election 'corrupt' and 'leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen'

Thompson told reporters this week that the committee had received “a lot of information”, including documentary footage of Trump’s final months in office. In new testimony from the committee’s taped deposition with Bill Barr, the former attorney general said he thought it was important for the department to investigate – and ultimately disprove – Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. The committee said it would resume public hearings in July, with at least two more sessions scheduled. The panel voted unanimously to hold Clark in contempt of Congress after he failed to cooperate with its investigation. At the urging of Republican congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Trump contemplated replacing Rosen with Clark, an environmental lawyer by trade. “Donald Trump didn’t just want the justice department to investigate,” Thompson said.

Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud claims, striving in vain to enlist top law enforcement officials in his ...

Pat Cipollone, then the White House counsel, said the letter that Clark wanted to send was a “murder-suicide pact.” Rosen, resisting the idea of being fired by a subordinate, said Thursday that he contacted senior Justice Department officials to rally them together and also requested a White House meeting. A report released last year by the Senate Judiciary Committee that painted Clark as a relentless advocate for Trump included a draft letter pushing Georgia officials to convene a special legislative session to reconsider the election results. “Steve Engel at one point said, ‘Jeff Clark will be leading a graveyard. A spokesman for the US attorney confirmed the existence of law enforcement activity in Virginia, where Clark lives, but would not say what it was connected to. Clark has been subpoenaed by the committee but was not among the witnesses Thursday. Lawmakers on Thursday played a videotaped deposition showing him repeatedly invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination. “And I said, ‘That’s right. “He wanted the Justice Department to help legitimize his lies, to basically call the election corrupt” and to appoint a special counsel. Three Trump-era Justice Department officials recounted a relentless pressure campaign from the president, including day after day of directives to chase unsupported allegations that the election won by Democrat Joe Biden had been stolen. Testimony also centred on a tense Oval Office showdown on Jan. 3, 2021, in which Trump contemplated replacing Rosen with a lower-level official, Jeffrey Clark, who wanted to champion Trump’s bogus election fraud claims. As in past hearings, the committee focused on lawmakers who’d aligned themselves with Trump’s efforts. The Justice Department resisted each demand.