UK Tories receive blow as opposition Labor wins several strongholds

Preliminary results from the local elections in the UK are out with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party losing several strongholds in the capital and beyond to the opposition.

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Saeed Pourreza

Press TV, London

It was the UK prime minister’s first test at the ballot box since he paid a fine for breaking Covid lockdown rules, and the results are speaking for themselves. London strongholds such as Wandsworth, and Westminster held by the Tories or Conservatives for decades, lost to the opposition labor.