Local elections in Great Britain: a test for Boris Johnson

Some local elections in Britain like Thursday are going on decide the future of a prime minister as in the case of Boris Johnson. The results will be known on Friday to find out who is driving British council or municipality. These types of elections are very different in general. People vote differently and it only happens in certain areas.

Boris Johnson promised to address the cost of living crisis and creating “high -skilled, high -paying jobs,” while begging the public to stay with the Tories. But the problem is the Conservatives and their own MPs don’t be near him, in a double break in his leadership.

Boris must survive the Downing St party scandal in the pandemic to stand in the general election, as long as his party keeps him as leader.

Faced with evidence that the candidates have distanced themselves from the party leadership, Johnson also urged people to watch the performance of their local authorities.

Lose the election?

The last call came when Johnson visited Eastleigh on the south coast. Surveys have suggested that the Tories are already on the verge of flogging in these elections, but in the hope of winning the “Labor red wall”, which they occupied in Brexit, in the north of the country.

Some are already warning the party could lose 500 seats. MPs are considering the possibility of a coup attempt against Boris Johnson, following the partygate during the pandemic on Downing St and the parties he organized.

Starmer and his curry problem

Labor leader Keir Starmer is in Wakefield attacking rising food prices and rising prices, which have affected British families since Brexit and the war in Ukraine.

But the Labor leader also finds it difficult to avoid questions about alleged pandemic lockdown violations, amid the claims he has ordered. £ 200 per curry for 30 attendees around 10 pm on a visit to Durham last year.

He was photographed drinking beer at the meeting, but insisted his team was working and not celebrating.

Conservative cabinet ministers sounded the alarm at the prospect of a “toryang butcher shop in Surrey in Oxfordshire “, since The Liberal Democrats have staged a resurgence at the expense of the discredited government.

Scottish conservatives lose

Scotland looks sad for the Conservatives, along with the SNP Scottish nationalists dominant again and Labor willing to push them to third place.

However, voting intentions coming from London’s suburbs and key ‘Red Wall’ areas (ex-Labor who voted for Boris for Brexit in the north of the country) are less bleak.

Johnson could be saved by the fact that the seats in dispute are largely from 2018, when Labor’s performance was so strong. What does this mean the extent of the losses will be limited.

Polls also suggest the Tories are on course to lose in this Thursday’s local election.

Pollsters for Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now suggested that conservatives will have problems with 201 tips with ballots this week.

A cabinet minister told Spectator magazine they expected the weekend headlines to be about ‘destruction of the Blue Wall’, a reference controlled by the Conservatives, with a blue badge, and a ‘carnage in Surrey and Oxfordshire’ .

“Things are particularly bad in Scotland, bad in London, not very good in the South West. But on the side of the Red Wall the mood is not too bad,” said a loyalist minister.

However, Tory pollster Lord Hayward suggested the party’s defeat could be between 250 and 350 seats.

“One of the things that becomes clear is that the people you’re talking to are saying things against Boris, against London, against Westminster,” said one of the pollsters.

“Find” the election

Some candidates described themselves as ‘local conservatives’. In Hartlepool, some added a note relying on their election literature, asking people not to punish them for the behavior of national politicians.

“It’s a growing number of people who openly disagree with Boris and are trying to isolate themselves from Boris,” the conservative militant said.

Chris Curtis of Opinium joined pundits ’warning against over -estimating the likely size of conservative losses.

“With the headline numbers, I just don’t think we’re going for a huge amount of losses. We’re talking less than 500,” he told the Financial Times.

“Work now is slightly ahead of the Conservatives in voting intention polls. Compared to the near result, when these seats were last contested in 2018. But that wasn’t enough change for a dramatic surprise, ”he explained.

The Tories lost to Scotland

Conservatives expect difficulties in local elections in Scotland as the poll shows they have sunk behind the SNP and Labor as a third party. The popularity of Rishi Sunak, the finance chancellor who could replace Boris Johnson, has plummeted.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s personal ratings also hit as Scots, like many others in the UK, grapple with the cost of the living crisis. The popularity of Sunak has fallen 26 points since Marchat a time when Britons are feeling pressure on rising prices and rising energy charges.

A new poll shows that the Tories are third in Scotland behind the SNP and Labor.

Only alex salmondthe former Scottish First Minister, is less famous than Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

The Savanta ComRes survey also points to painful local elections for Conservatives.

Boris is not popular

The worsening party fortunes in Scotland appear to be driven by the deep unpopularity of leading Conservatives, such as Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following the Partygate scandal.

According to a survey by Savanta ComRes, the Conservatives now have the support of fewer than one in five voters (18 per cent) in Scotland in terms of constituent voting objective for the Scottish Parliament. They are placed behind the main SNP (46 per cent) and Scottish Labor (25 per cent).

Conservatives are also third party when it comes to the goal of voting on the regional list, with Conservatives again at 18 percent, Labor at 23 percent and the SNP at 31 percent.

The poll found that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, head of the SNP, maintains her positive rating of favor with Scottish voters (13 per cent). But, by contrast, only his predecessor Alex Salmond (-63 percent) is less popular than Johnson (-58 percent) or Sunak (-48 percent).

Conservatives are now supported by less than one in five voters (18 per cent) in Scotland when it comes to the goal of voting in constituency for the Scottish Parliament.

Paris, correspondent

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