A | LONDON -- Britain's main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections, snatching seats in Parliament that were long rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives.Results early Friday showed that voters in Tamworth, central England, and Mid-Bedfordshire, north of London, switched from Conservatives to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers, solidifying Labour's status as front-runner ahead of a national election next year.Labour leader Keir Starmer claimed his party was “redrawing the political map.” Labour candidate Sarah Edwards took Tamworth, where the Conservatives won by almost 20,000 votes in 2019, and Labour's Alistair Strathern took Mid-Bedfordshire by overturning a 25,000-vote Tory margin.John Curtice, a polling expert at the University of Strathclyde, said the “exceptional swings” to Labour could be compared to the collapse in Conservative support under Prime Minister John Major in the 1990s.“And we all know how that ended," he said — in a landslide 1997 election victory for Labour under Tony Blair.Others cautioned that turnout in Thursday's voting was low, and the elections were unusual because they replaced lawmakers who both resigned under a cloud.Tamworth legislator Chris Pincher quit after Parliament’s standards watchdog recommended he be suspended for “completely inappropriate” behavior after groping two men at a London private members’ club. Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson’ s reluctance to sanction Pincher when the allegations emerged helped trigger Johnson’s ouster at the hands of his own party last year.Mid-Bedfordshire member of Parliament Nadine Dorries resigned over the treatment of Johnson and her own failure to be appointed to Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords. Dorries is a strong ally of Johnson who has blamed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to topple the former leader.Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands blamed the losses on “legacy issues” and said people were “happy with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as prime minister.” The results add to pressure on the governing party, which has lost several byelections since Sunak took office just under a year ago. He replaced Liz Truss, who announced her resignation a year ago Friday after her plan for unfunded tax cuts sent financial markets into turmoil and rocked the economy.Truss spent just seven weeks in office after winning a party leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson, who quit after three years in office when scandals over money and ethics turned party lawmakers against him.Sunak steadied the economy but has not managed to boost the party’s rating in opinion polls, where it consistently lags between 10 and 20 points behind Labour. A national election must be called by the end of 2024.Friday's results confirm polls showing the Conservatives are losing support across the country, from affluent southern voters turned off by Brexit to working-class northern voters who switched from Labour in 2019 after Johnson promised to spread prosperity to long-neglected areas.。 日前，记者在抚顺县峡河乡胜子村尾矿库看到，大型挖沟机、推土机和卡车正在平整土地，现场一派忙碌的景象。 作为抚顺县四个尾矿库光伏发电项目之一，23.92兆瓦南方电网分散式光伏发电项目总投资1.04亿元，预计11月份进入光伏安装阶段。项目竣工后，每年能给当地带来税收收入100余万元，为县域经济高质量发展注入新动能。 据了解，抚顺县整合县内石文镇、救兵镇、峡河乡、上马镇的四座废弃尾矿库进行新能源开发利用，经过前期科学论证，与南方电网综合能源股份有限公司签订该合作协议。 光伏发电产业是国家鼓励发展的朝阳产业和节能环保产业，对乡村振兴、人居环境改善具有十分重要的意义。近年来，抚顺县以“光伏+”为着力点，将光伏发电与农村、农业高效有机结合，走绿色清洁能源发展之路，以集中连片打造“光伏村庄、光伏乡镇”为目标，积极推行“光伏+”乡村振兴产业发展路径。 责任编辑：李丹。
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