Name: Zac Goldsmith ousted by Lib Dems
Uploaded: 2016-12-02T20:23:47+00:00
Duration: 4 min 59 s
Description: He must have thought that he wasn't taking much of a risk in resigning as Conservative MP for Richmond Park and standing as an independent to win it back. But Zac Goldsmith reckoned without the by-election pedigree of the Liberal Democrats - and the Brexit backlash.

He must have thought that he wasn’t taking much of a risk in resigning as Conservative MP for Richmond Park and standing as an independent to win it back. But Zac Goldsmith reckoned without the by-election pedigree of the Liberal Democrats – and the Brexit backlash.