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New Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire Helen Morgan with leader Ed Davey
New Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire Helen Morgan with leader Ed Davey
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Boris Johnson this week received another shattering blow to his premiership after the loss of the ultra-safe North Shropshire seat to the Liberal Democrats.

The West Midlands constituents chose Lib Dem candidate Helen Morgan as their new MP in a shock win that saw North Shropshire elect its first non-Conservative MP in almost 200 years.

Morgan won the rural constituency in a by-election that was triggered by Conservative MP Owen Paterson resigning from his post following a parliamentary lobbying scandal. At the last general election, the former minister won almost 63% of the vote in the historically safe seat, beating second-placed Labour by nearly 23,000 votes.

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The loss could spell serious trouble for the prime minister, who has said that he takes “personal responsibility” for the “very disappointing results”.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.