New election defeats weaken Johnson

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The Liberal Democrats and Labor share two seats in the hands of Conservative MPs

The Conservative Party has lost the two seats contested on Thursday to replace local deputies. The result reinforces the trend already identified in recent voting. Labor regains a constituency in the north of England that went to the Conservatives through ‘Brexit’ and the Liberal Democrats in the south benefit from the tactical ‘anti-to-tory’ vote.

Wakefield has sent Labor MPs to Westminster in nearly every election since the Labor Party’s founding and the introduction of universal suffrage. In 2019, he elected the first conservative since 1931. The chosen one, Imran Ahmad Khan, was forced to resign after serving time in prison for having sex with a minor.

Tiverton and Honiton are two towns in Devon, in the south west of England. They give name to a rural constituency created in 1997 after the merging of two existing ones. In the elections since that date, a MP who was forced to resign after he was caught watching pornography on his mobile in the House of Commons had raised his vote.

There has always been a significant Conservative mood in Wakefield, and this time it continues. 30% of voters voted for the Conservative candidate, 17% less than the imprisoned. The turnaround at Tiverton and Honiton is spectacular. The resigned deputy won in 2019 with 60.2% of the vote and now the ‘tory’ candidate has received 28.4% of the vote.

Both Keir Starmer and Ed Davey refuse to call for tactical voting, but it is clear that in recent elections Labor and Liberal Democrat voters voted for the party best placed to take the Conservative seat. That tactical vote could lead to a coalition government between the two parties, according to polls.

The defeat has led to the resignation of Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden, who has a seat in the cabinet. In a letter to his leader, Boris Johnson, who is attending a Commonwealth summit in Rwanda, he says that “we cannot continue as if nothing happened”. “Someone has to take responsibility and I have come to the conclusion that under these circumstances it would not be appropriate to remain in office,” he emphasized.

Although the president is responsible for organizing election campaigns, discrediting Johnson is one of the reasons for the drop in the vote. Downden’s public message will be perceived as an indirect way of asking the prime minister to resign. There will be fears in party seats that Johnson’s persistence will lead to them losing their jobs.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey urged Conservative MPs to ‘finally do the right thing’. “This result is a wake-up call for everyone who supports Boris Johnson. They can’t afford to ignore this result.” Starmer said “the country has lost faith in the Tories” because the Conservative Party “runs out of energy and ideas”.

Source: La Verdad

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