Boris Johnson is no stranger to making headlines, but the name of Britain's former prime minister hardly crosses the lips of the opposition Labour Party candidate battling to replace him in his former outer London parliamentary seat.
Instead, Danny Beales is concentrating on the issues he says are most troubling voters in the constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip - high inflation, weak economic growth, car charges and rising taxes and mortgage costs.
He swiftly went back to concentrating his attacks on the government's handling of the economy and public services. Sunak, who has been prime minister for just nine months, asked voters at the start of the year to judge him on five pledges: to halve inflation, get the economy growing, cut the national debt, reduce health waiting lists and stop boats carrying asylum seekers crossing the Channel to Britain.of voters said the economy was the most important issue for them in a YouGov survey earlier this month.Uxbridge and South Ruislip, on the western edge of London, is traditionally a Conservative stronghold.
Maria Genjatovic, 73, a retired businesswoman who voted for the Conservatives most of her life, said she would vote for Labour, describing Britain as like "a bucket full of holes" with high inflation, long waiting lists to use the state-run health service and rising mortgage rates.
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