一 | 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.。
二 | AI摘要 国民党籍民代徐巧芯批评台行政机构负责人卓荣泰拒副署“儿少账户条例”是恶意曲解规定。她指此举伤害立法权，强调行政机构应按民意机构三读通过的法律执行。 台当局行政机构负责人卓荣泰不副署台民意机构“三读”通过的“儿少成长及未来账户条例”，国民党籍台民意机构负责人韩国瑜重批，“执政权”再大，都大不过台湾地区现行宪制性规定，两人隔空互杠。国民党籍民代徐巧芯19日受访表示，韩国瑜“雷霆之怒应该发，而且早该发”，且卓荣泰是读了台湾地区现行宪制性规定后，恶意去曲解。 据台媒“中天新闻”报道，徐巧芯指出，卓荣泰的态度一直以来都在摆烂，“在野党”民代在审查总预算或各项“法案”时都是忍无可忍，认为无需再忍。
三 | 其实也看到台行政机构的态度非常嚣张，使得两边开始对抗。
四 | 针对卓荣泰要求韩国瑜“读好台湾地区现行宪制性规定”的说法，徐巧芯反击称，卓荣泰并不能代表“宪法法庭”，在“宪法法庭”尚未做出任何决议前，台行政机构就应该按照台民意机构“三读”通过的“法律”执行。她也说，台民意机构提出的叫做“法律案”而非“预算案”，两者并不相悖。预算编列虽属台行政机构职权，但“法律案”的提出是台民意机构的权力，所以卓荣泰是在刻意曲解法律。 徐巧芯更举例，台行政机构近期在“儿少未来账户”等民生法案上拒绝副署，这个跟政治无关，是跟民生有关的“法案”。且“副署权”的本意是为了限制台湾地区领导人权力扩张，让台行政机构负责人能对赖清德产生制衡，而非用来对抗台民意机构。 徐巧芯续批，卓荣泰不是没有读台湾地区现行宪制性规定，而是很恶意地去曲解、扭曲，用各种方式伤害岛内“立法权”。
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