Following the Conservative Party’s defeat in Thursday’s by-elections, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a new blow this week. The bad decision prompted the sudden resignation of the party leader, but the prime minister said he would not resign again.
The Conservative Party lost two seats in parliament to win. One represents the historically right-wing bloc Tiverton-Honiton in south-west England, and the other represents Wakefield, the traditional left-wing stronghold in the north of the country known as the “Red Wall” where the Conservatives defeated Labor. In the 2019 election.
In the election announced earlier this Friday (24), Diverton-Honey elected a deputy from the centrist Liberal Democrats and returned to Wakefield Labor.
Elections came three weeks after Boris escaped a no-confidence vote by representatives of his own party, which called into question his authority to run the country among “partygates” and known party corruption – some of whom were present. Prime Minister – During the most severe lockout against Govt in the country.
The outcome of the by-elections further weakens the soon-to-be-defeated prime minister, who is widely regarded by Britain as a “liar” and facing widespread dissatisfaction with uncontrolled inflation.
In Rwanda, where he attended the Commonwealth summit, Boris acknowledged that his party did worse than expected from opinion polls, which saw them at gaining about two thirds of the vote. “We need to recognize that we need to do more. We will do that. We will continue to do that and respond to people’s concerns,” he said. Later, in an interview with Channel 4, he announced that he was responsible for the new election defeat.
Thanks to the promise to deliver Brexit, the big winner in the 2019 Assembly elections, Boris recorded two defeats in last year’s by-elections and suffered electoral setbacks in the regional elections in May. Therefore, in the party it is considered a complex burden.
He announced his resignation in a letter to Boris with Oliver Dowd, leader of the British Conservative Party, saying the new defeats were “the latest in a series of very bad decisions for our party.” “We can not go on as if nothing had happened. Someone has to take responsibility. In this situation, I have come to the conclusion that it would not be right to continue in office.”
To increase the pressure, former President Michael Howard said Boris should resign. “The party and, most importantly, the country will be better off in a new direction,” he told the BBC.
Labor leader Khair Stormer, who plans to make Boris prime minister after the 2024 election, said the victory of one of the party’s historic strongholds shows that for the first time in more than a decade, the opposition can win nationally. “What a verdict for the Conservatives and Boris Johnson. They are one step ahead, out of ideas,” he told reporters.
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, stressed that “people are tired of Boris Johnson’s lies and abuses and that this election raises awareness among all Conservative lawmakers who support the Prime Minister.”
Following the no-confidence vote that Boris won on June 6, the Conservative Party could not take such action against its leader for one year under current rules.
However he acknowledged that their numbers were not enough to defeat Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s promise that there would be no deliberation on the part of lawmakers in Downing Street, the government’s seat. Penalty.
