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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 24 June 2022 - Government loses both by-elections
Description: It is said that one of the reasons that Boris Johnson was able to cling onto power following a recent vote of confidence was the fact that MPs believed he had a golden touch when fighting elections.
That appears to have now deserted him as well, as the Government lost the two by-elections which were held yesterday.
The first to declare was Wakefield in Yorkshire, where the seat was won back by the opposition Labour Party, who lost it in the general Election.
While this defeat will have stung, it is the kind of result that happens in mid-Parliament and...