Disastrous results of Sunak and the Conservatives in the British local elections

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, German NTV broadcast the recent local elections in England Rishi Sunak, the prime minister of this country and his conservative party, assessed a disaster and wrote: Parliamentary elections will be held in England within a year at the latest. The current local elections, about a year away, will clarify what the polls have been showing for months. The ruling conservatives are facing a historic bankruptcy and Sunak’s prime ministerial term is coming to an end. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is heading towards the end of its government with a devastating defeat in local elections in England. Tim Beale, a political scientist at Queen Mary University of London, said: “These results are not only bad for the Conservatives and Rishi Sunak, they are terrible.” The future British public was considered. After about a third of the municipalities were counted, the Conservative Party faced one of its worst results in 40 years, according to election researcher John Curtis. “So far they’ve basically lost half the seats they want to defend,” the professor at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University told the BBC on Friday morning. If this trend continues, they may lose about 500 seats.

Commentators, of course, emphasize that local elections are not comparable to parliamentary elections. But a national poll by polling firm Ugo also sees Sunak’s Conservatives in freefall, with just 18% of the vote for the party, compared to Labor’s 44%.

For Kerr Starmer, Leader of the Labor Party, this is evidence of a change in mood among the people. He said: We have experienced 14 years of failure and decline, and the Tories (conservatives) have left us nothing but chaos and division. In this dire situation, Sunak also has to think about competing with the right-wing populist British Reform Party – once founded by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage – which has long troubled him.

The Conservatives for 14 years who are in power in England. But in the past few years, with frequent changes in leadership and chaos under Sonak’s predecessors, including the prime ministers of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, trust in the party has been severely shaken.

Result The local elections could affect the political future of Sunak, who will be in office from October 2022. Britain must elect a new parliament no later than January 2025.

The German newspaper “Tugschau” also wrote in an article: not all the votes have been counted in the local elections in England and Wales yet – but there are already signs There is a failure for the ruling conservatives. This increases Prime Minister Sonak’s concern about the upcoming general elections. According to this German newspaper, the Conservative Party in the British government suffered heavy losses in the local elections in England and Wales. >After about a quarter of all votes have been counted, the Conservative Party has so far lost more than 120 seats, while the opposition Labor Party has gained about 50, the Associated Press reported. In the 2021 local elections, the Conservatives won 40% of the votes and the Labor Party won 30% of the votes.

In this way, the Labor Party won significant successes in many areas in the recent local elections in England.

Kar Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, even spoke of a “decisive victory” for his party in this election and said: “People are tired after “14 years of defeat, 14 years of decline” and they want a new start under The ruling Labor Party.

Starmer continued to emphasize: This is the only election where voters have had the chance to send a direct message to Rishi Sonak’s conservatives, and this message is a decisive vote for change.

Tory official Richard Holden also spoke of a “difficult night” and admitted the Tories were “obviously not going to get any big results”.

The opposition Labor party, according to His party’s impressive success in local elections has called for early general elections. Labor leader Kerr Starmer said: “Make way, let’s have a general election.”

A by-election for a parliamentary seat in the Blackpool South constituency was held at the same time, as the Conservative MP for There, he was forced to resign due to a lobbying scandal. In this election, Chris Webb, the candidate of the Labor Party, received significantly more votes than the candidate of the ruling party. The Labor Party won this constituency with a margin of 26%. It was the 11th Conservative defeat in a by-election this legislative term.

Starmer said his party’s landslide victory in Blackpool South was “the most important result today”.

At the same time as the local elections. It was held in England and Wales on Thursday. These are seen as the last major test of sentiment for Prime Minister Sunak ahead of the UK’s upcoming general election.

By Friday evening, with more votes counted, Labor had won almost 170 council seats, It gained control of eight more local councils and filled several new municipal posts. With 430 seats, the Conservatives lost almost half of the seats they were trying to defend. The Liberal Democrats and the Greens also gained seats. Distance from Sunak