Byelection results live: Tories braced for losses as counting begins in three constituencies

The polls have now closed in the byelections to choose a new MP in Somerton and Frome, Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty.

Voters had been able to cast their ballots from 7am on Thursday.

If the Conservatives suffer three defeats, Rishi Sunak could become the first prime minister since Harold Wilson in 1968 to lose a trio of byelections in a single day.