Boris Johnson
Could this be the end of the Conservatives’ reign?
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hichever way you’re politically persuaded it’s unlikely that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s list of misdemeanours have gone unnoticed by you. Results of June’s YouGov survey asking “How well is Boris Johnson doing as UK Prime Minister” showed 69% of voters answering “badly” and just 24% saying “well”. This is a stark but unsurprising comparison to the early days of the pandemic, where in May 2020 the result was practically opposite, with “well” at 66% and “badly” 26%. From Partygate to Wallpapergate, Johnson hasn’t
only fallen out of public favour, but with a good percentage of his own party too. A vote of no-confidence was triggered by Johnson’s own party this June, when 15% of party members submitted no-confidence letters to the chair of the 1922 Committee. The result of the vote was tight, with 41% of the party voting to remove the leader (211 votes in support of the leader and 148 against). In typical Johnson pseudo-positivity, he responded to the result by saying that it was an “extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result”.
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