Boris Johnson has been dealt massive blow to this authority after the Liberal Democrats scored a sensational victory in the North Shropshire by-election.
The Prime Minister was humiliated in the early hours of Friday morning when voters in the true-blue West Midlands constituency abandoned the Conservatives and piled in behind the Lib Dems.
Lib Dem winner Helen Morgan overturned a massive 22,949 Conservative majority in the ballot triggered by the resignation of shamed Tory Owen Paterson.She won 17,957 votes after achieving an extraordinary swing of 34 per cent and securing a Lib Dem majority of 5,925 over Tory candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst while Labour’s Ben Wood secured 3,686 votes.
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