The British Labour Party suffered its largest electoral defeat since 1935, losing 59 seats in Parliament while the Conservative Party gained 47.1 Many of these losses were in the “red wall,” a group of former Labour strongholds across central and northern England. Dennis “the Beast of Bolsover” Skinner, who had held his seat for 49 years, lost to the Conservative Mark Fletcher, a Cambridge alumnus who had served as chief of staff to Lord Popat of Harrow in the House of Lords and director of communications for Synergix Health, a company based in the British Virgin Islands; Ian Levy, who claimed to be a National Health Service nurse in a series of Facebook posts that have since been edited to reflect his actual title, nursing assistant, became the first Conservative since 1950 to represent Blyth Valley; and Dehenna Davison, a 26-year-old who once asked her 68-year-old grandfather to accept her 60-year-old husband on the reality TV show
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
The British Labour Party suffered its largest electoral defeat since 1935, losing 59 seats in Parliament while the Conservative Party gained 47.1 Many of these losses were in the “red wall,” a group of former Labour strongholds across central and northern England. Dennis “the Beast of Bolsover” Skinner, who had held his seat for 49 years, lost to the Conservative Mark Fletcher, a Cambridge alumnus who had served as chief of staff to Lord Popat of Harrow in the House of Lords and director of communications for Synergix Health, a company based in the British Virgin Islands; Ian Levy, who claimed to be a National Health Service nurse in a series of Facebook posts that have since been edited to reflect his actual title, nursing assistant, became the first Conservative since 1950 to represent Blyth Valley; and Dehenna Davison, a 26-year-old who once asked her 68-year-old grandfather to accept her 60-year-old husband on the reality TV show