‘Find your inner Conservative,’ backbenchers tell the high-taxing, free-spending and beleaguered prime minister.
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing a major speech next week outlining his plans to get Britain’s economy growing again, as he looks to reset his premiership and unite his mutinous Conservative Party around a policy program.
The size of the vote against him on Monday night has led many to predict that he will lose the leadership one way or another in the coming year, giving a new prime minister at least a year to get established before the next election is due.Discontent is likely to come to a head again if Mr Johnson cannot retain at least one of the two Conservative seats up for grabs in a pair of byelections on June 23. One is under challenge from the Liberal Democrats, the other from Labour.
“The important thing is for the government to actually now come up with proposals and ideas and momentum,” he said.newspaper to urge Mr Johnson and his loyal ministers to “dig deep and find their inner Conservatism”. Commentators expect Mr Johnson to try to please his MPs and base with more announcements on immigration and on law and order, and to conjure more traditionalist gimmicks like his recent pledge to consider reintroducing imperial measurements in shops.
The prime minister might also try to invigorate Tory support by stepping up his fight with the European Union over the trade and economic arrangements in Northern Ireland.
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