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一 |     LONDON -- Britain's main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections, snatching seats in Parliament that were long rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives.Results early Friday showed that voters in Tamworth, central England, and Mid-Bedfordshire, north of London, switched from Conservatives to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers, solidifying Labour's status as front-runner ahead of a national election next year.Labour leader Keir Starmer claimed his party was “redrawing the political map.” Labour candidate Sarah Edwards took Tamworth, where the Conservatives won by almost 20,000 votes in 2019, and Labour's Alistair Strathern took Mid-Bedfordshire by overturning a 25,000-vote Tory margin.John Curtice, a polling expert at the University of Strathclyde, said the “exceptional swings” to Labour could be compared to the collapse in Conservative support under Prime Minister John Major in the 1990s.“And we all know how that ended," he said — in a landslide 1997 election victory for Labour under Tony Blair.Others cautioned that turnout in Thursday's voting was low, and the elections were unusual because they replaced lawmakers who both resigned under a cloud.Tamworth legislator Chris Pincher quit after Parliament’s standards watchdog recommended he be suspended for “completely inappropriate” behavior after groping two men at a London private members’ club. Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson’ s reluctance to sanction Pincher when the allegations emerged helped trigger Johnson’s ouster at the hands of his own party last year.Mid-Bedfordshire member of Parliament Nadine Dorries resigned over the treatment of Johnson and her own failure to be appointed to Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords. Dorries is a strong ally of Johnson who has blamed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to topple the former leader.Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands blamed the losses on “legacy issues” and said people were “happy with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as prime minister.” The results add to pressure on the governing party, which has lost several byelections since Sunak took office just under a year ago. He replaced Liz Truss, who announced her resignation a year ago Friday after her plan for unfunded tax cuts sent financial markets into turmoil and rocked the economy.Truss spent just seven weeks in office after winning a party leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson, who quit after three years in office when scandals over money and ethics turned party lawmakers against him.Sunak steadied the economy but has not managed to boost the party’s rating in opinion polls, where it consistently lags between 10 and 20 points behind Labour. A national election must be called by the end of 2024.Friday's results confirm polls showing the Conservatives are losing support across the country, from affluent southern voters turned off by Brexit to working-class northern voters who switched from Labour in 2019 after Johnson promised to spread prosperity to long-neglected areas.。    8月25日消息，据媒体报道，距离起飞还有2个多月，航空公司完全可以二次售票，无任何损失，可近5000元的机票仅仅只退140元。     近日，杭州一位女士向媒体反映，自己女儿近期在中国国航APP上，购买了从伦敦经北京飞往杭州的往返机票，由于往程乘坐体验不佳，决定退掉返程机票。

二 |     提前2个多月发起退票申请，近5000元的返程机票，却被告知只能退还140元，且无法给出合理扣费依据，这让她难以接受。    该订单页面显示，这趟往返机票总共花费9856元，其中票价5747元，税费4109元。

三 |     因为分配的靠窗座位下方有凸起设备，女儿右腿长时间无法伸展，加上在北京中转时航班延误，所以到家时身心俱疲，卧床休养了三天才恢复。    经过这么一遭，自己女儿对国航航班产生抵触心理，打算退掉返程机票。    起飞时间为9月23日，他们在7月20日提交了退票申请，此时距离航班起飞时间还有2个多月，没想到却被告知，只能退还140元。

四 |     该女士还表示，他们购买的是正常往返客票，并非特价票，提前这么久退票并不会影响国航二次销售，航空公司如此“一刀切”的做法，违背了民航局要求航司执行阶梯退改费率的要求，涉嫌不公平格式条款。

五 |     事发后，她也向中国民用航空局消费者事务中心进行投诉，但是并没有争取到自己想要的结果。    据了解，国航官网曾发布过国内客票自愿退票和自愿变更实施细则，从航班起飞前7天至4个小时，收取0%至75%不等的手续费，但对国际航班未做明确要求。    而打开中国国航APP购票页面，搜索9月23日从杭州飞伦敦的航班，包括她购买的航班在内，有多趟航班的页面上，都标明了“不允许退票（附加费不退）”。

六 |     根据其提供的中国民用航空局消费者事务中心提供的调解意见书显示，航空公司拒绝原因为“票规为不允许退票，未使用段退票不支持非自愿。我司维持原处置方案，不再调解。”     由于被投诉人（经营者）不同意参加调解，消费者事务中心调解不成，“根据《公共航空运输旅客服务投诉管理办法》相关规定，消费者事务中心对该投诉终止调解。

七 | 投诉人可依法通过民事诉讼等其它合法方式进行维权。”               

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