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By-election spin frenzy – plus Inside “manky” Buckingham Palace

Paper Cuts

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The Sun Has Decided to Go With the Big Battle

There were three bio-elections of conservative held seats yesterday. Labour took Selby with a huge swing, Lib Dems took Somerset and Froome. Tories kept hold of Boris Johnson's old seat in Uxbridge by less than 500 votes. So what we can see is that there's sort of everyone's kind of pretty much aligned according to where you think the papers would. The Times has done a sort of reasonably balanced by-election results live. And now this Uxbridge seat was only won by 495 votes, so I mean, it's not really a massive big win or blow. It is certainly a very, very close result. There's a lot of concern about the

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