Sunak braced for electoral test as polls open in triple by-election contest
Mr Johnson stood down to avoid being suspended from parliament over a report that found he misled MPs over Partygate. Mr Adams quit after being passed over for a peerage. And David Warbuton, an MP in Somerset since 2015, stood down after being investigated over claims of harassment and drug use.
If the Conservatives are trounced, Mr Sunak could become the first prime minister since Harold Wilson in 1968 to lose three byelections in a single day. Somerton and Frome should also be a Tory safe seat – with the party holding a 19,000 majority at the last election. But after the loss of Tiverton and Honiton last year, which saw an area in neighbouring Devon clinched by the Liberal Democrats, it is considered the most likely to flip.
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