British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under increased pressure after his Conservative party lost a traditional safe seat to the Liberal Democrats amid a slew of scandals and internal disagreements over COVID-19 measures. The Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Morgan won 17,957 votes, trouncing Tory candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst by 5,925 votes. It was a massive 34 percent swing to the Lib Dems in what was an ultra-safe seat for the Conservatives, who had a near-23,000 majority in the 2019 general election. In her victory speech, Morgan, a 46-year-old accountant, said the voters in North Shropshire “have said loudly and clearly: ‘Boris Johnson, the party is over!’” She said Johnson’s government runs on “lies and bluster” and it “will be defeated.” Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey called the by-election result “a watershed moment” in British politics. “From Buckinghamshire to Shropshire, lifelong Conservatives have turned to the Liberal Democrats in their …