In a flash, Boris Johnson’s working majority in Britain’s Parliament is now just one seat
By William Booth August 2 at 12:50 PM
LONDON — It was just a one-off race out in a small district in Wales, where sheep outnumber voters, an off-year by-election to replace a Conservative Party lawmaker who was sacked by petition for cheating on his expense account. Normally, it would be back-page news.
But the Conservative Party candidate lost Thursday night — and a member of the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party won — and suddenly Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s working majority in Parliament has been reduced to a single seat.
The government Johnson inherited from his ousted predecessor, Theresa May, was already dependent on the support of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to get its wafer-thin majority.
The Conservatives could lose their one-seat advantages by defection, resignation, scandal or death. There have been five by-election contests since the 2017 general elections — two lawmakers faced recall petitions, two resigned from office and one died.
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