Inside the crunch battle for Boris Johnson’s constituency as Rishi Sunak faces three by-elections next week
With the Tories hovering between 15 and 20 points behind in the polls, you can understand why.are giving odds of 1/25 on a Labour victory. That means if you bet £25 on a Labour win, you will only pocket £1 profit. “It is barely worth the trip to the bookies,” noted one senior Labour figure with a grin.
Tory Cabinet ministers are gloomy. One who has been out knocking doors predicts they will lose all three by- elections taking place this week — in Uxbridge & South Ruislip, Selby & Ainsty, and Somerton & Frome.Although privately, Labour figures confess Ulez is toxic and will cost them votes. “Voters absolutely hate it,” one Labour veteran said.
Walking through the town market on a busy weekday afternoon, there is certainly a lot of anger about Ulez — alongside that love for Boris. Lynne Swann, who works at Baron Wool — a stall selling wool in Uxbridge’s market square — said: “Bring back Boris. Boris for Mayor — that would be much better!”“It is not about clean air — it’s a stealth“I think he made some silly mistakes but, if I’m honest with you, I think he has been hung, drawn and quartered by the media.The man trying to turn Borisland Labour is 34-year-old Danny Beales.
He was brought up by a single mum in South Ruislip, but they were made homeless when he was a teen. It was this experience, he says, that inspired him to get into
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