Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent and persistent critics, had been behind bars since January 2021.
It has been ten by-election losses so far this Parliament for The Conservatives, the biggest hit of any previous government since the 1960s.
Rishi Sunak said midterm votes are ‘always difficult’ for incumbent governments after Labour overturned Tory majorities.
"The general election is going to be horrible."
Gen Kitchen achieved the second largest swing from the Conservatives to Labour at a by-election since the Second World War.
The former mayor of Lewisham in London, who resigned to fight the by-election, overturned a Conservative majority of 11,220.
The Government has now suffered more defeats in a single Parliament than any government since the 1960s.
The shadow chancellor said party leader Sir Keir Starmer had intervened ‘swiftly’ to ‘ensure the highest standards’.
"I don't want to admit this, but I'm starting to rather admire Cameron as foreign secretary", Ian Dunt said.
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