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It has been a bruising week for the Conservative Party.

Welcome to the real world. After encouraging the public to 'hold their nerve' amid the mortgage crisis, some Tories are feeling fearful.

Senior Labour figures cited the widening of the scheme as responsible for the party narrowly missing out on winning Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

He said the Tories have relapsed due to the "collective failure of the Conservative Party to distance itself" from the former prime minister.

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

Ministers were also paid more than £400,000 in severance packages.

A change to the way the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant is calculated has been introduced as the Crown Estate's profits soar above £1 billion.

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.