The Conservative party rank-and-file who demanded Johnson resign are no longer so sure, now that they’ve seen the candidates to replace him. This longing, this regret, has already been given a name by British pollsters: “Boris nostalgia.”
resign in July are no longer so sure, now that they’ve had a good sniff at the candidates to replace him.This longing, this regret, has already been given a name by British pollsters: “Boris nostalgia.”
“So over the last couple of months of this leadership contest, we’ve gone from party members thinking Boris should resign, and now, these very same people are saying, overwhelmingly, that they prefer Boris Johnson to the alternatives,” said Chris Curtis, Opinium’s head of political polling. “People are fickle, aren’t they?” agreed Simon Berry, 49, a management consultant, at the ninth hustings in Manchester.
“I was out on the doorsteps and I can tell you that those Labour supporters who switched? They voted for Boris and Brexit and not the Conservative Party,” Reynolds said. “They blinking loved Boris.”Tim Bale
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