The strong desire of British conservatives to distance themselves from Sunak

according to the international group Tasnim news agency, Frankfurter newspaper In an article, Rond Shai discussed the growing desire of British Conservative Party members to distance themselves from Rishi Sunak, due to the weakening of his position in this party and in England, and wrote: Many conservatives do not want to be seen with Sunak. Many British conservatives, especially those who work in the positions of local officials, do not want to have anything to do with the government of Prime Minister Sunak. ) local elections are held in England. The ruling Conservative Party is expected to suffer heavy losses when millions of voters in England redefine their local councils this Thursday. In total, about 2500 seats are ready for elections. Polls predict the Conservatives will lose about half of their roughly 1,000 seats. Nine mayors – a combination of district chiefs, district managers and police inspectors – plus the mayor of London are elected in this vote. Finally, the Tories also face the loss of a lower house official in Blackpool, where the local Tory MP was forced to resign over a lobbying scandal.

Another part of this article reads: But as always in these local elections, many voters are using the ballot as a lesson for the ruling party. The position of the Conservatives is very bad: in all the polls, the biggest opposition party, Labour, is about 20% ahead of the Conservatives. The London School of Economics says: This is a major development that has been going on for months. 68% of citizens are dissatisfied with the government. Hobolt identified the economy, health care and immigration as the most important issues facing the voters and said: “The government does not look good in all three areas.

The Conservative Party can of course read the polls, they have distanced themselves from their party across the country. Leaflets and online ads for candidates – whether Susan Hall in London, Kane Duncan in York or Andy Street in the Greater Birmingham area – usually run without the traditional Tory blue, and the 190-year-old party’s lettering and logo are nowhere to be seen.

Luke Trail of the organization called “Most Common” said: “If a conservative candidate wins the local elections on Thursday, it will be entirely because of his character. It can outweigh the disadvantages of the party.”

The election campaign of Lord Ben Houchen, the mayor of Teeside in the north-east of England, whose free port is surrounded by all kinds of traders. It has also taken a similar route. As a precaution, Keir Starmer, the opposition leader of the Labor Party, scoffed in the House of Commons. They are dependent, they don’t even want to be seen near him.

Meanwhile members of the right wing of the Conservative Party are muttering about a new coup against their hapless leader. This, in turn, fueled enthusiastic speculation about the date of the next general election. slow down As Britons also go on holiday in the summer and the main parties hold their party conferences in September, an election in October or November is considered the most reasonable option.

Today, Thursday local elections will be held in England, a hard defeat for the conservative party is predicted in these elections and experts report the risk of internal party riots against the British Prime Minister.

The Conservative government in London is actually weakening after 14 years in power. Members of the party also expect the party to lose hundreds of seats in dozens of municipalities in Britain’s largest region in local elections.

In recent years, civil strife, It has weakened the conservatives who have been in power since 2010. Since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, there have been five different prime ministers, including three between July and October 2022.

Political scientist Sarah Hubolt says that these local elections are a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming general election. This fact is especially true for the Conservatives, who have been trailing the opposition Labor Party by more than 20 percentage points in national polls for months. According to him, if the conservative party faces an electoral disaster on Thursday, there may be a rebellion within the party against the prime minister or even early elections.

Handelsblatt newspaper Germany also wrote in an article: The conservatives in England are so desperate that they seem to want to remove their fourth prime minister in the current period. Before Sunak, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were forced to involuntarily evacuate the government headquarters at 10 Downing Street.

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