Rishi Sunak has faced devastating losses of more than 1,000 Tory seats in the local elections, while Labour has said the party is on track to win power at the next general election.
The prime minister conceded on Friday the English council results were “disappointing”, but faced a scathing verdict from some of his MPs and the first rumblings of a threat to his leadership from allies of Boris Johnson.
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, was buoyed up by winning more than 500 seats, with the party believing its projected vote share puts it on course to take power in 2024 for the first time in 14 years. » | Rowena Mason and Peter Walker | Friday, May 5, 2023
Recent Conservative prime ministers: A succession of duds, one dud after the other! First came Cameron, an unmitigated disaster because of Brexit, then came May, slightly better, but still a disaster, then came Boris Johnson, a total and utter disaster, then Liz Truss, an unspeakable disaster, a cipher, and now Sunak, yet another disaster – a catastrophe, a calamity waiting to happen! (or has it already happened?) – © Mark Alexander
