The Conservatives in Salford City announced in a sponsored post last May: “Everyone wants a selfie with Boris.” However, the group no longer has a digital presence.
Elsewhere, Mr Johnson is not mentioned in the 24-page Scottish Conservative local election manifesto launched on Thursday or in the 18-page Welsh Tory manifesto launched on Wednesday.
Sir Kear and Sir Ed were at the center of their respective election campaigns in Bury and south-west London.
The Tories have not published a manifesto for local elections in England, as is normal, and claim that their campaign in England was launched at the Spring Party Conference last month, when Oliver Dowden, the Conservative chairman, and Mr Johnson made direct and indirect references. to local elections in his speeches.
A Conservative source insisted that the local election campaign had been launched at the conference, saying it was “stupid” to assume Mr Johnson had been removed from the campaign.
The source said: “The campaign was launched at the spring conference as usual. There was no such launch last year. The prime minister has several full-day campaigns in his diary very soon. The associations are running their own local campaigns. They are not central and have not been 100 years.”
Party sources said both Johnson and Mr Dowden “spoke clearly about the locals and the Conservative Council campaign in their speeches”.
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