Conservative politicians in Australia who are serious about winning elections will be looking beyond the shenanigans that went on at Downing Street during COVID. | OPINION by Roshena Campbell, Melbourne City councillor
on the walls of the official residence. According to a British political strategist, this might have been Boris Johnson’s most offensive act for many Tories, in what was a particularly colourful personal and political life. Not only did the prime minister and his staffers choose to party at Downing Street while the nation was locked down, they couldn’t be bothered to clean up the mess.
When Johnson went to the polls in 2019 he faced the real prospect of being Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister in two centuries. Instead, he achieved theThe victory gave him the political mandate to get Brexit done.He broke down the so-called Red Wall, winning seats that Labour had held for nearly a century. The Red Wall was Labour’s heartland – working-class seats in the North, Midlands and North East Wales. Some of them hadn’t had a Tory MP since universal suffrage was introduced.
We are so accustomed to politicians who are mechanically smooth. It is easy to tune out when you know you’re about to receive another dose of political spin. Erratic and boisterous, Johnson, like Trump, made voters listen. People who voted Conservative for the first time were promised levelling-up – that their lives would substantially improve and they would no longer be left behind.Loading
Last month in a by-election, prompted by the conviction of the Tory MP for sex offences, Labour won Wakefield.
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