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Britain's opposition Labour Party scored a resounding victory in a vote for a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday, underlining the scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to win a general election in the next two years.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner visited Chester on Friday to celebrate the result of the by-election with the new MP, Samantha Dixon, who will now take up her seat two years out from the next general election. The party held on to the seat with a majority of 10,974, delivering…

The Tories lost the first by-election contested since Sunak became Prime Minister

Local councillor Samantha Dixon re-won the seat for Labour in the early hours of Friday

Claims of rape and sexual assault lodged against Tory MP span period of two years

Newly-elected Samantha Dixon says Tory government has betrayed trust put in them at last general election

New Labour MP Samantha Dixon increased the party's majority in Chester by more than 4,000 votes in a blow to Rishi Sunak's new Government

Rishi Sunak’s first test ends brutally, with 14-point swing pollsters say would give Starmer comfortable majority at election

Local councillor Samantha Dixon re-won the seat for Labour in the early hours of Friday morning.