British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under increased pressure after his Conservative party lost a traditional safe seat to the Liberal Democrats amid a slew of scandals and internal disagreements over COVID-19 measures.
The Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Morgan won 17,957 votes, trouncing Tory candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst by 5,925 votes. It was a massive 34 percent swing to the Lib Dems in what was an ultra-safe seat for the Conservatives, who had a near-23,000 majority in the 2019 general election.
