Labor won in London but do not pierce in the north of the country.
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The British had for the first time the opportunity, Thursday, May 5, to express their weariness towards the government of Boris Johnson, during the first post-“party” electoral ballot, these evenings organized in full confidence at Downing Street. They did not deprive them during the local elections aimed at renewing thousands of municipal councils in England, in Wales and Scotland: in power for twelve years, the Conservative Party has suffered severe backhands, losing its last fiefs Londoners and backing back on the land, however, traditionally acquired from the south of England.
The party has thus lost, for the benefit of Laborists, the control of Wandsworth, a wealthy arrondissement of southwest London, in its fold for forty-four years. Renowned for being the favorite borough of ex-first minister Margaret Thatcher, for his political constant of low local taxes, Wandsworth had become in recent weeks a fixing point for plowing activists, who wanted to bring down one of the last London advice still In blue (the color of the Tories) on the electoral map. The Conservatives also sold to Laborists the majority to the municipal council of Barnet (a district of northwestern London) and that of Westminster, in the heart of the capital. They also lost control of the local Oxfordshire local council (a district known for its secondary Londonian second residences) or the large port city of Southampton.
frustration of the Conservatives
“We have done exactly what the inhabitants wanted – lowering taxes, limiting the rent increases -, but other subjects influenced their vote, whose attitude of Boris Johnson”, regretted Ravi govindia, the Head of the Wandsworth Council, Friday May 6. Many other elected officials have said their frustration with regard to the Prime Minister, whose honesty is questioned, after he was sanctioned by the police for “Partygate”, while he had repeated for a long time Having participated in any party during confinement. Mr. Johnson must “look carefully in the mirror” after these local failures, underlined Simon Bosher, elected conservative on Friday morning on Friday at the Portsmouth council, another port city in the southwest of the country where the Tories are now in difficulty.
The other great concern of voters was the cost of living crisis, against which the Johnson government has not yet acted. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Echiquier, only offers a 200 pound sterling (234 euros) discount to the British on their energy bill when she doubled in April, that she will probably increase to the Fall, and that their purchasing power is amputated by 8 % inflation (it could reach 10 % warned the Bank of England on Thursday). Even among the Tories, some demand a tax on the profits of oil companies – BP and Shell have published historical profits in recent days.
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