Local Tory leaders call for Boris to quit after string of election losses

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Local Conservative leaders across the country have told Boris Johnson to resign after their party suffered a string of humiliating losses in the council election.

Local Conservative leaders across the country have toldThe Tories lost the flagship Wandsworth Council toThey also lost Southampton to Labour and West Oxfordshire and Worcester to no overall control as the electorate punishes them in the ballot box.

Labour has also taken control of Westminster City council for the first time since its creation in 1964 – despite the Tories having double their seats last time round. He told Sky News there was a feeling among the public that ‘the Government are not in touch and, sadly I have to say, the PM cannot be relied upon to be telling the truth’.

‘Because it’s the rank-and-file grassroots members who they rely on who are actually losing their seats tonight.’ Tory leader of Worcester City Council Marc Bayliss told reporters he was heading home early from the election count as he anticipated a thrashing for his party.

 

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Any on record? Nope

fakenews nonsense as per usual

The knives will be coming out soon. Tories have a rep for binning leaders

You mean just on Planet London?

You wrote this yesterday didn't you?

Polling expert Sir John Curtice said: “There is so far very little evidence of the Labour Party making particularly significant advances in the so-called Red Wall i.e. pro-Leave parts of the country in the Midlands and the north.”

It is not just Boris, Patel, Sunak and a coupe of others need to disappear!

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