In an unexpected campaign event on Tuesday night, Boris Johnson made an appeal to Conservative voters to refuse Labour a landslide victory in the UK public election. This was Rishi Sunak’s last chance to avoid the enormous losses that were anticipated at Thursday’s vote.
The former prime minister made his first public address of the election campaign in an untimely speech in central London, saying:” A Labour state prepares to use a sledgehammer majority to kill so much of what we have achieved.”
Johnson, who is not a Tory prospect at the vote, repeated Tory plan attack lines claiming Labour leader Keir Starmer may use a” excellent- majority” to put up taxes and allow uncontrolled immigration, allegations the opposition party denies. He urged former Tory voters never to vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK group, who he called” Kremlin crawlers” and” Trump- istas”, a guide to remarks the right- aircraft group’s chief made about enjoying Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This year’s people vote is on par for Labour, which is expected to put an end to 14 years of Traditional rule in Britain. In the battle, ten of the 11 so-called MRP polls conducted so far have predicted that the opposition party would win more votes than it did in Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
Before the campaign’s last evening on Wednesday, the intervention will be contentious, and Sunak’s Labour Party candidate’s support for aligning the Tory strategy with his but-one predecessor is likely to be criticized.
Johnson, who governed Britain from 2019 until his departure after a series of controversies in 2022, remains a socially divisive figure. He won the 2019 general vote by a sizable margin and still enjoys support from Brexit supporters and some of the main Conservative voters, the types of citizens Sunak is trying to persuade to move out on Thursday.
Instead of voting for the right-wing Reform UK group led by Farage, another Brexit advocate, Sunak has adopted a tactic of essentially conceding defeat. At a number of campaign events before on Tuesday, Sunak said that a Labour government may have a “blank test” to carry out its wishes if it received a majority in accordance with what polls suggest.
But, Johnson’s role in the so-called Partygate incident, which involved rule-breaking events in Downing Street during the Covid pandemic and for which he and Sunak were both fined by the officers, increased his popularity among the electorate’s general volcano. He left business with a net individual approval rating of -53 percentage points, according to YouGov, the poll.
Johnson has taken a backseat to his position in the Tory strategy, spending the majority of his last six months away on vacation. That has been speculated as a result of his bad relation with Sunak. Some friends of Johnson blame the current leading, who served in Johnson’s state as his chancellor of the exchequer, for his resignation, because Sunak’s departure from Johnson’s Cabinet is commonly seen as precipitating his death.
Up until Tuesday night, Johnson’s campaign activities were restricted to posting social media posts supporting some Conservative candidates and writing columns criticizing the Labour Party in the Daily Mail newspaper.
