Information reviews, and blogs like this one, deal with what occurs. However typically in politics what issues most is what hasn’t occurred.
For a number of weeks now we have now been instructed that some Conservative MPs had been going to attend till after the native elections earlier than deciding whether or not or to not write to the chairman of the 1922 Committee calling for a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson. In No 10, right now was seen as a possible second of peril for Johnson, when his critics may mobilise towards him.
It’s virtually 12 hours for the reason that polls closed, and outcomes for the Tories have been disappointing, and in some locations very unhealthy certainly. However we haven’t had a single Conservative MP name for Johnson’s resignation, or for a no confidence poll.
The closest we’ve come to that appears to be David Simmonds, MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, saying Johnson has “troublesome inquiries to reply”. That is what he instructed the At the moment programme.
It was a reasonably clear message on the doorstep. Clearly the prime minister has obtained some troublesome inquiries to reply.
Overwhelmingly the message that I heard on the doorsteps was individuals had been broadly optimistic concerning the authorities’s insurance policies however they don’t seem to be glad about what they’ve been listening to about Partygate.
He stated: ‘I’ll take full duty for these election outcomes’, and I feel he must confront that query now.
The day remains to be younger, and the Conservatives are anticipated to do notably badly in Scotland (see 9.07am), but it surely does look as thought the long-anticipated management problem to Johnson might – but once more – be postponed.
Bristol votes to cease having instantly elected mayor
Steven Morris
Voters in Bristol have determined to abolish the place of instantly elected mayor in favour of the outdated committee system.
The present mayor, Marvin Rees – the primary instantly elected black mayor in Europe – had argued that the place gave the town a visual, accountable chief. He stated points starting from the response to the pandemic to the toppling of the Colston statue benefited from that sort of management.
However in a referendum, the individuals of Bristol voted to scrap the system with 59% choosing change. The turnout was 29%.
Heather Mack, chief of the Inexperienced group on the council, stated it marked “a brand new chapter in the way in which our metropolis is run”, including:
For a few years now, vital choices affecting the entire of our metropolis have been made behind closed doorways by only one individual whom the general public and elected councillors can not simply problem.
And Mark Weston, chief of the Conservative group on the council, stated:
The mayoral mannequin has confirmed a catastrophe for Bristol – an excessive amount of energy on the whim of 1 particular person.
Rees will serve out his time period in workplace till 2024.The mayoral put up was first created in 2012.
In an interview on BBC Breakfast, Oliver Dowden, the Conservative get together co-chair, restated his declare that Labour will not be doing properly sufficient to be heading in the right direction to win a common election. (See 7.47am.) He stated:
In the event you take the entire image of this, it actually doesn’t reveal that Labour has the momentum to type the following authorities …
This isn’t like what Tony Blair obtained in say ‘95 two years earlier than his election victory, they had been making 1,800 good points. In the event you have a look at Ed Miliband, [he] managed to make 800 good points in 2011 and nonetheless not win the election.
Scottish Tories braced for worst native elections outcome for decade
Severin Carrell
The Scottish Conservatives are braced for his or her worst election lead to a decade after acknowledging massive numbers of Tory voters had stayed at residence resulting from their anger over the Partygate scandal.
Tory officers anticipate their get together to come back in third total in Scotland behind Labour, with counts underneath means in all 32 native councils. The primary outcomes are anticipated at round noon or lunchtime, with Tory consideration notably centered on Perth & Kinross, a key battleground with the Scottish Nationwide get together, and within the north-east of Scotland, the place the Tories hope their pro-oil message will insulate them towards the Partygate backlash.
Senior Tory sources reject Labour assertions that some Conservative voters had switched to Labour, arguing that their vote had collapsed due to abstentions. Within the 2017 council elections, the Tories unexpectedly gained 164 seats, taking 276 in whole.
Douglas Ross, the Scottish Tory chief, has come underneath hearth from opponents and a few inner critics after flip-flopping on Boris Johnson’s suitability to be prime minister. Ross was the primary Tory MP to name for Johnson to stop over Partygate however has since claimed he should stay in put up due to the Ukraine struggle.
One Tory supply instructed the Day by day Mail Ross wouldn’t stop: “Douglas goes nowhere. He isn’t resigning. Voters have despatched a message to Boris, not Douglas.”
From Ian Jones, an information journalist at PA Media
That is from Stewart Wooden, a Labour peer and a former adviser to each Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.
These are from Ben Walker, an information journalist on the New Statesman.
The Conservative MP David Simmonds, who represents Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner in north London, says Boris Johnson has “troublesome questions” to reply concerning the election outcomes, Steven Swinford from the Instances reviews.