Rishi Sunak appears to blame low voter turnout for the Conservative Party's double defeat in the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections. The prime minister adds "there isn't a huge amount of enthusiasm" for Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer and urges the public to "stick with our plan". Labour overturned majorities of 11,220 and 18,540, delivering the government’s ninth and tenth by-election defeats of the current Parliament and securing its second largest swing from the Conservatives ever. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well midterm by-elections are always difficult for incumbent governments and
00:04 the circumstances of these by-elections were of course particularly challenging.
00:08 Now I think if you look at the results very low turnout and it shows that we've
00:12 got work to do to show people that we are delivering on their priorities and
00:15 that's what I'm absolutely determined to do but also shows that there isn't a
00:18 huge amount of enthusiasm for the alternative in Keir Starmer and the
00:22 Labour Party and that's because they don't have a plan and if you don't have
00:25 a plan you can't deliver real change and when the general election comes that's
00:28 the message I'll be making to the country stick with our plan because it
00:32 is starting to deliver the change that the country wants and needs.