Allies of Boris Johnson are stirring again after the local election results 💬 “Boris has always said he would only come back as leader if 50% of MPs supported him' 🔴 HugoGye, ChaplainChloe and RichardVaughan1
Long before the local election results started to roll in on Thursday night, the Conservatives were laying the ground for a dire result. “The local elections are going to be bad,” a member ofThe Prime Minister himself used a speech to allies in the ornate surroundings of the Reform Club in London’s West End to hammer home his message. Speaking at a fifth anniversary party for the Onward think-tank, Mr Sunak admitted that politics had become a “box-set drama” which had alienated voters.
For some Conservatives, it is just a relief that the party is not doing worse, given that Labour’s poll lead stood at nearly 30 points when Mr Sunak came to power six months ago. One MP told: “We were heading for a crash and he’s grabbed hold of the controls. The undercarriage might still bump along a bit but he’s pulling us out of the dive.”
“Team Boris has gone into overdrive again,” one MP remarked. “Boris has always said he would only come back as leader if 50 per cent of MPs supported him – but I am hoping we don’t have musical chairs. We don’t need him now, we need stability, it’s steadying the ship time.” Claire Bullivant, chief executive of the CDO, predicted that members would be fired up by anger over MPs’ ousting of Mr Johnson and Liz Truss. She told: “The party grassroots have lost many activists and volunteers having lost two democratically elected leaders, Boris and Liz, the two PMs they voted for.” One sceptical MP said: “The results are just going to embolden the CDO. They are insane.”
On the Conservative benches as a whole “everybody is basically in opposition mode”, a gloomy MP noted. Ministers are less defeatist: they say privately that the only way to have a hope of winning the general election is to double down on delivery over the three core issues of the economy, immigration and health. Secretaries of state have clashed with civil servants over their desire to push through policies as quickly as possible,Some are positively bullish.
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