The chairman of Britain’s ruling Conservatives stop on Friday after the occasion lost two parliamentary by-elections, together with in a southwest English seat it had beforehand held for over a century.
“Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office,” Oliver Dowden wrote in a resignation letter to Prime Minister and Tory chief Boris Johnson.
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