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The bruised Conservatives will take solace from stopping Labour in Uxbridge, while the Lib Dems will be pleased with another stunning swing

Senior Labour figures cited the widening of the scheme as responsible for the party narrowly missing out on winning Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

Rishi Sunak insisted the next general election is not a ‘done deal’ after the Conservatives clung onto Boris Johnson’s old seat.

It’s been a topsy-turvy week for politics, with three big by-elections and a few controversial pledges. Although Labour stormed to victory in Selby and Ainsty, leader Keir Starmer found himself on the ropes when he promised to maintain a deeply unpopular two-child benefit cap policy.

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer speaks in Selby and Ainsty on Friday, 21 July, after Labour won the seat in Thursday's by election.

It says much of the Conservatives’ current plight that a win of just 495 votes is being hailed with relief inside the party.

The Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are all claiming positives after each party achieved a dramatic victory in yesterday’s by-elections.

The 25-year-old has been branded “baby of the house”.

Conservatives are ‘going to lose a hell of a lot of seats’, admits one MP – despite Rishi Sunak’s claim that a Labour general election victory is ‘not a done deal’

The stances adopted by the Labour Party’s leaders in the UK and Scotland on the two-child benefit cap are both right, a senior MP has said.

The shadow Scottish secretary told BBC Radio Scotland that both Labour leaders were right on the controversial policy.