If Boris Johnson plans to execute one of his trademark feats of impossible political survival, he’s better off doing it sooner. Britain’s prime minister suffered another setback in two parliamentary by-elections on Thursday, leaving his future under question again.
Mr Johnson’s Conservative Party was defending two seats after Tory office bearers were forced to resign amid scandals. Wakefield in Yorkshire, to the north, is one of the so-called Red Wall seats that Mr Johnson won in 2019. Mr Johnson scored a historic victory in that year’s general election to woo blue-collar, culturally conservative voters who had been firmly elected Labor candidates for decades but who became increasingly alienated from Labor’s left-wing drift. felt isolated.
opinion | boris johnson on the rocks
If Boris Johnson plans to execute one of his trademark feats of impossible political survival, he’s better off doing it sooner. Britain’s prime minister suffered another setback in two parliamentary by-elections on Thursday, leaving his future under question again.
Mr Johnson’s Conservative Party was defending two seats after Tory office bearers were forced to resign amid scandals. Wakefield in Yorkshire, to the north, is one of the so-called Red Wall seats that Mr Johnson won in 2019. Mr Johnson scored a historic victory in that year’s general election to woo blue-collar, culturally conservative voters who had been firmly elected Labor candidates for decades but who became increasingly alienated from Labor’s left-wing drift. felt isolated.