Polls open at 7am in both constituencies, with new MPs likely to be declared early on Friday.
Voters will head to the polls in two by-election tests for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as his party admitted it faces “difficult headwinds”.
Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries quit her Mid Bedfordshire seat following a row after she was not given a peerage in former prime minister Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, accusing Mr Sunak of abandoning “the fundamental principles of conservatism”.Chris Pincher, who had represented the Staffordshire seat since 2010, stood down after being found to have drunkenly groped two men in an “egregious case of sexual misconduct” at London’s exclusive Carlton Club last year.
On Wednesday, the Tory leader declined to condemn an apparent suggestion by the party’s Tamworth candidate that out-of-work parents who cannot afford to feed their children should “f*** off”. Mr Cooper told Channel 5 News he was “sorry if I’ve offended somebody” after the post was publicised.
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