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Tories beat SNP in Aberdeen South after relentless North Sea oil campaign

In the Aberdeen South by-election, the Conservative Party defeated the Scottish National Party with 14,308 votes to 8,258. The win comes as a rare success for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who faces challenges from Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The Conservatives focused their campaign on supporting North Sea oil drilling, aligning with Badenoch's shift away from green policies and her criticism of the Labour government's ban on new drilling.

The Conservatives bagged 14,308 votes to the Scottish National Party’s 8,258.

The victory is a rare boost for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, whose party was ejected from national office in 2024 and has been challenged from the right by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

The Tories threw significant weight behind making the Aberdeen South by-election a referendum on drilling in the North Sea.

Badenoch has moved the Tories sharply away from green policies, ditching the net-zero targets her party created and embracing the oil and gas industry.

“The industry is the economic lifeblood of the north east,” Badenoch said during the campaign, before laying into the Westminster Labour government’s “ban on new drilling, backed by the SNP.”

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Tories beat SNP in Aberdeen South after relentless North Sea oil campaign

In the Aberdeen South by-election, the Conservative Party defeated the Scottish National Party with 14,308 votes to 8,258. The win comes as a rare success for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who faces challenges from Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The Conservatives focused their campaign on supporting North Sea oil drilling, aligning with Badenoch's shift away from green policies and her criticism of the Labour government's ban on new drilling.

Bias read (Right): The article emphasizes the Conservative Party's pro-oil stance and frames the by-election as a 'referendum on drilling,' highlighting Kemi Badenoch's alignment with the oil and gas industry while criticizing the Labour government's environmental policies. This framing supports a right-leaning agenda

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