LONDON, July 21, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Britain's ruling Conservative Party on Friday saw its huge majorities wiped out in two of three by-elections seen as indicators ahead of an expected general election next year.

Rishi Sunak's party lost its 19,000-vote majority in the southwestern England seat of Somerton and Frome and its 20,000 majority in the northern seat of Selby and Ainsty, but won narrowly in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's seat of Uxbridge and Ruislip, election results showed.