UK election results were in favour of which party?
What are the reasons for the failure of the conservative party in the UK mid-term elections?
What is Boris Johnson’s reaction to the failure of the conservative party in the mid-term elections?
What do political analysts think about Boris Johnson’s political future according to the results of the British elections?
The UK election results show an unprecedented decline in Boris Johnson’s popularity. The British ruling party, led by Boris Johnson, lost two seats in the House of Commons to the Labor Party and the Liberal Democratic Party during the House of Commons by-elections, so some media interpreted it as a humiliating defeat. The fall of Boris Johnson’s cabinet is likely due to the UK election results.
Counting election votes
The counting of votes indicates the defeat of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the UK and the leader of the conservative party of this country, in the by-term elections. The UK election results prove this issue. In the current election, the Conservative Party lost the seat in the southwest of the UK, which had this party for more than a century, and the Labor Party, as the main rival of the Conservative Party, was able to regain the seat of the Wakefield constituency in the north of England.
Also, the British ruling party handed over Tiverton and Honiton seats to the Liberal Democratic Party. According to local media reports, Richard Foord, the candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Tiverton and Honiton by-elections, won the seat that the Conservative Party previously held with 24,000 more votes. Voting in this constituency took place after the resignation of Neil Parish, the former member of the Conservative Party. Following the scandal caused by watching immoral films in the British House of Commons, he had to resign.
UK election results & the defeat of the conservatives
According to Election UK results, labour won a total of 47.9% of Wakefield’s votes, with the Conservatives coming in second with 30%. As for the election results in Tiverton and Honiton, the Lib Dems won 52.9% of the vote, while the Conservatives won just 38.5%. This situation shows a decrease in the ruling party’s votes compared to the previous elections of 21.7%. It is expected that the pressure on Johnson will increase with the ruling party’s defeat in the mid-term elections. Johnson refused to accept responsibility for the loss in the mid-term elections and said that he would not step down regardless of the results of the British elections.
Boris Johnson’s refusal to resign
Boris Johnson announced that he would not resign despite his party’s heavy defeat in the British Parliament’s mid-term elections. By-elections were held in the provinces of West Yorkshire and Devon, in which the conservative party of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost two seats that belonged to Imran Ahmad Khan and Neil Parish.
The reason for the resignation of conservative representatives
In April 2022, Parish, who had held the position for 12 years, resigned from the House of Commons after being accused of viewing pornographic images on his mobile phone. Khan resigned after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy at a party in 2008. After the publication of a series of news about holding a large party in Johnson’s office in 2020 and 2021 and at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic and the quarantine situation related to it, the pressure on him to step down and resign has increased. In early June, the Prime Minister of the UK survived the vote of no confidence against his party; 211 of the lawmakers of the Conservative Party of the UK had voted in his favour, and 148 others had voted against him.
Boris Johnson is on the verge of falling from power.
The defeat of the British conservative ruling party in the mid-term parliamentary elections. Michael Howard, the former leader and influential member of the Conservative Party, says that Boris Johnson has no choice but to resign. He has suggested to members of the government to clarify their position in the face of a weak government under the leadership of Boris Johnson. In an interview with the BBC radio network, Howard stated that the performance of the party and the government would improve under the new leadership.
Political analysts’ opinion about Boris Johnson’s political future
Observers predict that Johnson is seriously at risk of a coup and the resignation of cabinet members. In the 2019 general elections, the Prime Minister of the UK managed to achieve a stunning victory by winning 365 seats in Parliament. With the slogan of Brexit, he won not only the grey votes but the areas controlled by the Labor Party. But the UK election results showed his ability to repeat the trick in 2019 was in jeopardy.
The poor economic situation of the UK
The economic situation of the UK is not very clear. The unprecedented inflation index and the unbridled increase in the cost of living in the UK have put the country in the worst economic conditions of the last half-century. The fact that there is no prospect of improvement in the situation and the official authorities are warning about the worsening problem has shocked the country’s people.
According to the latest report of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the inflation rate in the UK reached 9.1% in the last month (May), the highest figure in the previous 40 years. Before the war in Ukraine, ONS predicted that the inflation rate would be 2% despite the pressures caused by Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis. But now economists predict that the inflation rate will reach over 11% by the end of this year due to the increase in energy prices.
The latest poll results in the UK show that most of the people of this country want to remove Boris Johnson from power. According to this poll, the main party opposing the government is more popular than Johnson’s party. Most British media analyse that Johnson’s departure is a definite issue, and there is no possibility of his remaining in power. The UK election results show an unprecedented decline in Boris Johnson’s popularity.
