The Tories will look to blame the “chaotic” Boris Johnson and Liz Truss administrations for the heavy losses that the party is expecting to suffer in the forthcoming local elections RichardVaughan1, eleanormia, and singharj report
One Tory source who has spent the last two weeks on the road campaigning told it that the only “potential positive story” was likely to come from the North East, where the Tories could hold their own against a far more gloomier picture across the rest of the country.
Research by local election experts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, of Nuffield College, Oxford, has suggested that the Tories could lose more than 1,000 seats if there was a swing from the party to Labour of around 6 per cent. Nevertheless, next month’s elections are the largest local polls in the four-year cycle with more than 8,000 seats across 230 councils up for grabs, which will give some idea of the nation’s feeling towards the main parties.
Critics of Mr Sunak within the Tory party had previously warned that a bad showing in the local elections would spark major fears about its prospects at a general election, prompting suggestions that Mr Johnson could make a return as leader.: “If Rishi has a bad local election night all the toads will be looking for Boris to come back.”
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