The Conservative Party holds Bognor and Littlehampton.
The Tories' Alison Griffiths won Bognor and Littlehampton with 15,678 votes.
She replaces Nick Gibb who stood down.
Labour's Clare Walsh came second with 13,913.
Sandra Daniells, for Reform, got more than 20 per cent of the vote share with 10,262 votes.
Suella Braverman’s prospective Conservative leadership campaign has been dealt a blow after a key ally abandoned her.
Angela Rayner, the new Deputy Prime Minister, has worn an outfit from a brand with close links to the Labour Party for the third consecutive day.
When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.
'I will not be cowed'
As one big Tory beast after another faced The Hunger Games on election night, one notably escaped the carnage. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, stood tall on the podium with the former and current Labour candidates whose vicious infighting had done him such a big favour.
Who’s to blame? All of us – every Conservative MP in the last Parliament – has a share of the blame for this defeat. For my part, I made life harder for my Party by calling publicly for tougher policy on migration and defence, and so made negative headlines about Tory splits and factions.
The Reform UK leader who is also the new MP for Clacton, watched East Thurrock Community Football Club in Corringham on Saturday.
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul tells of vitriol from Reform supporters and says he was concerned for safety of those around him
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
A Tory candidate who was defeated by just 15 votes is considering taking legal action over alleged postal vote chaos in his constituency.
If Reform UK is more popular than the Lib Dems, why did it win so few seats by comparison?
Suella Braverman has issued a scathing verdict as to why the Conservatives lost the election, blaming Rishi Sunak for pursuing an "idiotic strategy" that treated voters like "mugs". In an intervention that will be seen as her teeing up a potential leadership bid, the former home secretary said her party "failed in office and deserved this result". The former home secretary - who retained her seat of Fareham and Waterlooville but with a much-reduced majority - blamed "high taxes" and "high immigration" as well as "insane political correctness" she believed the party had embraced for the scale of the defeat.
France will not have a far-right government, but that answer, that single fact, does not cover another crucial point. The biggest, but well short of an absolute majority, will be a left-wing coalition, called the New Popular Front. The centrist group, coalesced behind President Emmanuel Macron, has defied all predictions to come second.
Former Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh, who held the seat from 2015 to 2024, has taken aim at the Conservatives as he leaves the party.
NICOLA Sturgeon should apologise for the SNP’s election defeat, according to a former MP while another blamed the former first minister for creating a damaging “personality cult” around herself.
Marine Le Pen's National Rally topped polls during the first round of voting, while French leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has described election as 'relief'.
While the debate over Joe Biden’s future has raised many questions, it has made one thing much clearer. It is time for Americans to get used to the idea of President Kamala Harris.Democrats who believe that their party should stay the course with Biden as candidate frequently make the argument that if it became impossible for him to continue with the campaign or as president, Harris would be ready to assume the reins of power. A widely circulated Google document, entitled “Unburdened by What Has
Jockeying for the Tory leadership is in full swing after the party's disastrous general election.
Preliminary results suggest a significant shift in France's political composition, with no single group securing an outright majority in the 577-seat National Assembly. The left-wing New Popular Front appears to have made substantial gains, while President Macron's Ensemble coalition faces the prospect of a reduced presence. As of 22:00 Paris time, the latest seat projections for the French National Assembly are: New Popular Front (left alliance): 177-192 seats Ensemble (Macron's coalition): 152
Former MPs in East Lancashire have shared their reaction after all six lost their seats in the general election last week.
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