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Devon shipbuilder nets £6m for UK’s first electric workboat trial

Coastal Workboats is planning to stage the demonstration in the Shetland Islands, while it is also set to move into a new factory and head office in Honiton

Birmingham Post · Feb 16, 2023

Boris Johnson took official jet home from weekend with family in Cornwall

PM spent weekend before Tiverton and Honiton byelection in south-west and flew back on government plane

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022

Conservatives’ alarm grows over threat of tactical voting in safe seats

Last week’s byelection losses saw huge swings to the best-placed Tory opponent – without any formal electoral pact

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

'People are fed up with Boris' - voters hit out after Tory by-election defeats

Labour regained Wakefield from the Tories, while the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority to take Tiverton and Honiton in the Tories' southern heartlands

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022

Swinging south-west: Lib Dems buoyant after Devon byelection win

Party hopes Tiverton and Honiton victory could be start of shift away from Tories in ‘yellow hedge’ seats

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

This Lib Dem win is a message to Tory cowards propping up Johnson – get rid of him or we will

The problem is far bigger than Partygate. People see a government of incompetence and neglect, and want better, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton byelections: even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election

The scale of byelection defeats in Tiverton and Honiton in south-west England and Wakefield in the north of England might have Conservative rebels wishing they had waited a few weeks to hold a no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson. For the 148 MPs who voted against him, these results might have…

The Conversation · Jun 24, 2022

Gary Neville urges Rishi Sunak to "do decent thing" and resign after Oliver Dowden exit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was humiliated in the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield by-elections with Conservative co-chair Oliver Dowden quitting his role on Friday

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022

Porn Tory whose resignation sparked by-election says Boris Johnson needs to 'face reality'

Neil Parish triggered a by-election when he quit as MP for Tiverton and Honiton after admitting to watching X-rated videos in the Commons

Daily Mirror · Jun 24, 2022

Gary Neville’s brutal message for Boris Johnson after disastrous by-election results

The Conservatives lost seats in Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield to Labour and the Lib Dems

Manchester Evening News · Jun 24, 2022