Local elections 2023 live: Rishi Sunak tells Tories to prepare for ‘hard night’ as people in England head to the polls
are 16 points behind Labour in the latest Politico poll of polls and they are braced for a bad night. Last night, in a speech to an Onward thinktank event,said it would be a “hard” night for the party. He blamed his predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, saying that Tory councillors would lose their seats because of the “box set” psychodrama that enveloped the party last year. He said:Good councillors will lose their seats because of all that has happened over the past year.
Our economy is in much better shape. Our politics doesn’t feel like a box set drama anymore. And our friends and our allies know that we are back.is on course to win a general election, but that is hard to assess for at least three reasons.
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