“The Conservative Party are breathing a sigh of relief.”

After losing over hundred council seats in the local election, the Conservative Party narrowly avoided being beaten to third place in the Blackpool South by-election by Reform UK by just 117 votes.

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00:00 Times Radio's Darryl Morris reports from Blackpool
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