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Nadeem Ahmed also warned leaving EU had triggered racist attacks and backed second referendum, in embarrassment for Boris Johnson

By-elections will take place in West Yorkshire and Devon next week.

The mass of Conservative MPs with no confidence in jaundiced Johnson will only grow larger when he loses red wall Wakefield to Labour and possibly Tiverton to the Lib Dems

Prof Jon Tonge has won most of his political bets, so here are some predictions from a ‘trumped-up Nostradamus’

Lennie King, 22, was last seen in Kay Gardens in Bury

Moments of high danger ahead for Boris Johnson include the Wakefield and Tiverton by-elections which the Tories are expected to lose. The PM also faces a damaging Commons investigation

While the Tory leader has insisted he wants to get on with running the UK, his behaviour has stirred up deep anger among his own backbenchers

Boris Johnson has won the backing of MPs in a no confidence vote - for now. But not even his closest allies think the danger has passed, writes Mirror Political Editor Pippa Crerar

The jeers for Boris Johnson at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday tell you nothing that the polling won’t. Despite the delusions — or lies — of his fast-receding tide of allies, his administration is over. Labour is 20 points ahead in Wakefield, where there is a by-election on June 23.…

Business minister Paul Scully said a leadership poll ‘may well happen’, but backed the Prime Minister to win.

Boris Johnson could face a crunch vote in his leadership within days but even if he avoids a challenge, the by-elections in Wakefield and the Devon seat of Tiverton and Honiton on June 23 loom