What are the implications of the Kingswood and Wellingborough by-elections?

Two damaging by-election defeats in Tory heartlands have piled pressure on the Prime Minister, while Labour will consider its victories further evidence that it is a government in waiting.

Here the PA news agency examines the implications of the by-election results for the political parties and what the outcomes may tell us about the forthcoming general election.

– What were the results of the by-elections?

These were striking by-election wins for Labour and took the Conservatives’ tally of defeats into double figures since the 2019 general election.

In Kingswood the Opposition overturned a majority of 11,220 with a swing of 16.4 percentage points.

This is lower than some of the huge swings Labour enjoyed in previous by-elections, but was comfortably above the