Chair of Boris Johnson’s conservatives resigns

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: BLOOMBERG/JASON ALDEN

The Liberal Democrats overturned a huge Conservative majority to take Tiverton and Honiton, a rural constituency in southwest England held by the Tories since its creation in 1997. Speaking to reporters in Rwanda on Friday, the prime minister insisted he would “keep going” and that the UK’s cost-of-living crisis was a major factor in defeats he described as common for a mid-term government.“I’ve got to listen to what people are saying,” he said. “We’ve got to recognise there is more we’ve got to do and we certainly will — we will keep going addressing the concerns of people until we get through this patch.

Veteran Conservative Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who sits on the backbench committee that sets party rules including on leadership confidence votes, told BBC Radio 4 that MPs now had to listen to the premier and then “make a judgment as to whether we think that is a satisfactory explanation — or whether we should actually take steps to have a new prime minister.”

The collapse in Tory support in both seats is especially troubling for party strategists as they look forward to the next general election, which must be held by January 2025. They show two types of voters turning against Johnson, in traditional Tory heartlands in southern England, and in the north, where Johnson’s “Get Brexit Done” pledge more than three years ago convinced many Labour voters to switch sides.

The Liberal Democrats easily overturned this — with new MP Richard Foord winning a majority of 6,144 over his Tory rival. The huge swing of 30% was similar to the 34% swing from the Conservatives to the Lib Dems in another district election in North Shropshire in December.

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