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London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to extend the charge on polluting vehicles has been cited as the reason for Labour’s Uxbridge by-election loss.

It has been a bruising week for the Conservative Party.

Keir Mather won Labour the Selby and Ainsty seat in one of three by-elections held on Thursday.

Ironically, Labour lost the by-election due to a protest over Sadiq Khan's environmental ULEZ policy.

Labour’s Keir Mather, 25, will become the youngest MP in the Commons after overturning a 20,137 majority in Selby & Ainsty.

The Tories held the seat with a majority of just 495, while Laurence Fox and Piers Corbyn couldn't even get 1,000 votes between them.

The failure to overturn the Tory majority in the seat was dubbed “Uloss” by a party insider.

Sarah Dyke secured victory in the Somerset seat.

A similar swing across the country would result in Labour winning more seats than in Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide, the party has claimed.