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Party chairman resigns after new seat loss

London – The British Conservatives have lost two elections in key regions for the party. In Wakefield, near Leeds, part of the crumbling Red Wall was restored. Labor won with a larger share of the vote than expected. In southern Devon, the Liberal Democrats won in a district that has been staunchly conservative for nearly a century and a half.

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