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In his first speech of the year, UK opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer says an election is "one thing that we can be sure is coming", adding that he is "ready for it" as the Labour leader outlines his party's election year pitch. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call a general election at some point in 2024, but exactly when is becoming a source of increasingly fevered speculation among political observers. SOUNDBITE
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer hails his party's victory in the Mid Bedforshire by-election. SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the constituency of Uxbridge & South Ruislip with its newly elected MP Steve Tuckwell after the Conservative Party narrowly held on to the seat of former Prime Minsiter Boris Johnson by 495 votes. That result, driven by opposition to Labour mayor Sadiq Khan's expansion of a vehicle pollution tax to outer London, offered the embattled Sunak some relief, as elsewhere the Conservatives saw hefty majorities in two other seats blown away as scandals and high inflation took their toll. IMAGES
A Conservative MP announces that six candidates remain in the running to replace UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a first round of voting, with finance minister Nadhim Zahawi and former foreign minister Jeremy Hunt eliminated. IMAGES
Labour Party candidate Simon Lightwood wins parliamentary by-election in the United Kingdom's Wakefield, taking back the northern England constituency right from the Tories who also lost the Tiverton and Honiton seat to the centrist Liberal Democrats, in twin results set to pile new pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. SOUNDBITE