Boris Johnson urges wavering Tory voters to stick with the party

Boris Johnson has made a last-minute intervention in the Conservative election campaign, urging wavering Tory voters to stick with the party rather than allow Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to enjoy a “sledgehammer majority”. The former prime minister’s plea to Conservative supporters also highlighted how the Tory focus is beginning to switch to the fight for the party’s soul after an expected defeat on Thursday.

But one ally said: “He will seek to exert influence over the debate. Genuinely, in the last 72 hours he has become very irate about the threat of a Labour supermajority. He will have an interest in what happens next for the Tory fightback.” Johnson, who retains a strong appeal among many Tory voters, has been abroad for much of the election campaign and has confined himself mainly to helping specific Conservative parliamentary candidates with video messages and mail shots.

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