Rishi Sunak suffered the first electoral defeat of his premiership after Labour held on to its Chester seat in the north-west of England with an increased majority.
Samantha Dixon, who served as a councillor for Cheshire West and Chester, gained 17,309 votes in Thursday’s by-election. She received 61.2 per cent of the vote and increased the party’s majority from 6,164 in the 2019 general election to 10,974.
Liz Wardlaw, the Conservative candidate and NHS nurse, received 6,335 votes as the Tory vote share dropped from 38.3 per cent to 22.4 per cent. The Liberal Democrats’ Rob Herd came third with 2,368 votes.
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