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UK: Wakefield returns to Labour in defeat for Johnson's Conservatives

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Labour Party candidate Simon Lightwood wins parliamentary by-election in the United Kingdom's Wakefield, taking back the northern England constituency right from the Tories who also lost the Tiverton and Honiton seat to the centrist Liberal Democrats, in twin results set to pile new pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. SOUNDBITE

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