According to new research, the Conservatives are devastatingly defeated in the by-elections in Wakefield, because according to reports, Boris Johnson may face a vote for his future.
The Prime Minister secured a majority of 80 seats in the 2019 general election amid scalps in the so-called Red Wall – traditional areas supporting Labor in the north of England, the Midlands and Wales.
But as Wakefield had to go to the polls on June 23 to elect a new MP after former Tory incumbent President Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty of sexual assault, a new poll is likely to lead to an alarming reading at the Conservative campaign headquarters (CCHQ).
Johnson at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday
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A survey by JL Partners and reported in TheSunday Times gives Labor a 20-point lead over the Tories in Wakefield, a constituency that, before the 2019 result, consistently voted for a candidate wearing a red rosette from the 1930s.
The poll puts Labor at 48 percent and Tories at 28 percent, down 19 points.
James Johnson, co-founder and former sociologist of Downing Street during Theresa May’s term, said the Conservatives were “behind Labor in every age group, except those over 65,” on election day. less than three weeks.
The poll expert said the main reason Wakefield voters turned to Labor was because “Boris Johnson tried to cover up Partygate and lie to the public.”
The second most popular reason for choosing Sir Keira Starmer’s party was because they saw that Johnson had nothing to do with the working class.
The result could put more pressure on the prime minister, who faces a second test in the by-elections in Tiverton and Honiton on the same day as Wakefield, after revelations about parties breaking the blockade at number 10.
The prime minister faces a second test in the by-elections in Tiverton and Honiton on the same day as Wakefield
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The Sunday Times reported that a rebel said he had calculated in private up to 67 letters of no confidence sent to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Tory Backpack Committee, which would mean that the threshold of 54 had been reached. .
According to the newspaper, the vote on the future of Mr Johnson as prime minister could take place as early as Wednesday.
The rebels will need 180 voters to remove the prime minister, otherwise they will allow him, under current rules, a one-year standstill before a new offer to remove him can be made.
But according to an unnamed minister quoted by The Times on Saturday, Mr Johnson may not be able to count on ministers, whips and government officials – about 140 people – to support him in such a vote.
The newspaper quoted an anonymous minister as saying he “did not know” whether “they could trust him”.
The man was quoted as saying: “I have not trusted him for a long time, but I never thought we would reach a vote of confidence.
“And then is there an opportunity to lie in public and say that I voted in favor. I don’t know if I can. “
It is not only Tory MPs who have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Prime Minister following the publication of Sue Gray’s report at blockades in Downing Street and Whitehall.
The prime minister was booed by some of the crowd when he arrived with his wife, Carrie Johnson, to attend the National Thanksgiving Service for the Queen at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday as part of the platinum anniversary celebrations.
Additional reports from agencies
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