London: Rishi Sunak He has travelled thousands of miles over the past few weeks, but he has not been able to shake off the hope that his time as Britain’s prime minister is coming to an end.
Voters in the United Kingdom will vote National elections on Thursday, passing judgement on Sunak’s 20 months in office and the four Conservative prime ministers before him. They are widely expected to do something they have not done since 2005: elect a man who is a … labour party Government.
In the final two days of the election campaign, in which he visited food distribution warehouses, supermarkets, farms and more, Sunak stressed that “the outcome of this election is not a foregone conclusion.”
“People can see we have turned a corner,” said the Conservative leader, who will take office in October 2022. “It’s been a tough couple of years, but undoubtedly things are better now than they have been.”
But a last-minute pep talk at a Conservative rally on Tuesday night by former prime minister Boris Johnson – who led the party to a landslide victory in 2019 – did little to improve the party’s mood. Conservative cabinet minister Mel Stride said on Wednesday it looked like Labour was heading for an “extraordinary landslide”.
The Labour Party has warned against taking the election result lightly, and urged supporters not to be complacent about polls that have given the party a solid double-digit lead even before the campaign began. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer In a six-week campaign he has urged voters to give his center-left party a chance and vote for change. Most people, including analysts and politicians, expect them to do so.
The Labour Party has shown little enthusiasm for its promises to boost the sluggish economy, invest in infrastructure and make Britain a “clean energy superpower”.
But nothing has really gone wrong. The party has won the support of large sections of the business community and the backing of traditionally conservative newspapers, including the Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Former Labor candidate Douglas Beattie, author of the book “How Labor Wins (And Why It Loses),” said Starmer’s “quiet stability probably fits the mood of the country at the moment.”
“The country is looking for new ideas, moving away from a government that is tired and divided,” Beattie said. “That’s why the Labor Party is pushing for an open door.”
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party has been plagued by mistakes. The campaign got off to an inauspicious start when Sunak was drenched in rain while making the announcement outside 10 Downing Street on May 22. Then on June 6, Sunak left home early from a ceremony in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, missing out on attending the ceremony with United States President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
A number of Conservatives close to Sunak are being investigated by the gambling regulator amid suspicions they used insider information to place bets on the date of the election before it was announced.
That has made it harder for Sunak to erase the stain of political chaos and mismanagement that has gathered around the Conservatives since Johnson and his staff held lockdown-violating parties during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Johnson’s successor, Liz Truss, rocked the Covid-19-weakened economy with a package of massive tax cuts that worsened the cost-of-living crisis, and was in office for just 49 days. There is widespread discontent over a range of issues, from a dysfunctional public healthcare system to crumbling infrastructure.
But for many voters, distrust is not limited to the Conservatives, but to politicians in general. Right-wing stalwart Nigel Farage has bridged the gap with his Reform UK party, grabbing headlines and voters’ attention with his anti-immigration rhetoric.
The centrist Liberal Democrats and the environmentalist Green Party are also seeking to attract voters dissatisfied with the major parties.
Voters across the country say they want change, but they’re not optimistic it will come.
“I don’t know who’s right for me as a working person,” said Michelle Bird, a port worker in Southampton on England’s south coast who was undecided on whether to vote Labour or Conservative. “I don’t know if it’s the devil you know or the devil you don’t know.”
Connor Filsell, a young office worker living in a London suburb, wants a roof of his own.
He said, “I still stay at home. I want to get my own house, but the way things are going, it is not possible.”
Liz Butler, a senior lecturer in modern history at City University of London, said the signs pointed to this being “a game-changing election in which the Conservatives will be punished.” But she added that if Starmer wins, “the years ahead … could be challenging.”
“They’re probably going to be constantly attacked on a variety of grounds, both from the left and the right,” he said. “So I think the result of this election is clear, but I think all bets are off about what support for the Labour Party will be like over the next few years.”
Starmer agreed that his biggest challenge was “the mindset of some voters that everything is broken, nothing can be fixed.”
“And secondly, there’s a sense of mistrust in politics because there have been so many promises over the last 14 years that haven’t been fulfilled,” he told broadcaster ITV on Tuesday. “We have to step up and change that.”
Many election experts expect voter turnout to be low this time, down from the 67% recorded in 2019. Still, this election could bring about a change in Britain not seen in decades, provided Labour wins a big majority and the number of votes is low. conservative Party,
In Moreton-in-Marsh, a pretty town of honey-colored stone buildings in the Cotswold hills of western England, 25-year-old Evie Smith-Lomas had a chance to unseat the area’s long-serving Conservative MP.
“This seat has always been Tory, for 32 years, longer than I’ve been alive,” he said. “I’m excited by the prospect of someone new. I mean I think 32 years in any job is a long time. Surely by now you’d have no ideas left.”
Voters in the United Kingdom will vote National elections on Thursday, passing judgement on Sunak’s 20 months in office and the four Conservative prime ministers before him. They are widely expected to do something they have not done since 2005: elect a man who is a … labour party Government.
In the final two days of the election campaign, in which he visited food distribution warehouses, supermarkets, farms and more, Sunak stressed that “the outcome of this election is not a foregone conclusion.”
“People can see we have turned a corner,” said the Conservative leader, who will take office in October 2022. “It’s been a tough couple of years, but undoubtedly things are better now than they have been.”
But a last-minute pep talk at a Conservative rally on Tuesday night by former prime minister Boris Johnson – who led the party to a landslide victory in 2019 – did little to improve the party’s mood. Conservative cabinet minister Mel Stride said on Wednesday it looked like Labour was heading for an “extraordinary landslide”.
The Labour Party has warned against taking the election result lightly, and urged supporters not to be complacent about polls that have given the party a solid double-digit lead even before the campaign began. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer In a six-week campaign he has urged voters to give his center-left party a chance and vote for change. Most people, including analysts and politicians, expect them to do so.
The Labour Party has shown little enthusiasm for its promises to boost the sluggish economy, invest in infrastructure and make Britain a “clean energy superpower”.
But nothing has really gone wrong. The party has won the support of large sections of the business community and the backing of traditionally conservative newspapers, including the Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Former Labor candidate Douglas Beattie, author of the book “How Labor Wins (And Why It Loses),” said Starmer’s “quiet stability probably fits the mood of the country at the moment.”
“The country is looking for new ideas, moving away from a government that is tired and divided,” Beattie said. “That’s why the Labor Party is pushing for an open door.”
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party has been plagued by mistakes. The campaign got off to an inauspicious start when Sunak was drenched in rain while making the announcement outside 10 Downing Street on May 22. Then on June 6, Sunak left home early from a ceremony in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, missing out on attending the ceremony with United States President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
A number of Conservatives close to Sunak are being investigated by the gambling regulator amid suspicions they used insider information to place bets on the date of the election before it was announced.
That has made it harder for Sunak to erase the stain of political chaos and mismanagement that has gathered around the Conservatives since Johnson and his staff held lockdown-violating parties during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Johnson’s successor, Liz Truss, rocked the Covid-19-weakened economy with a package of massive tax cuts that worsened the cost-of-living crisis, and was in office for just 49 days. There is widespread discontent over a range of issues, from a dysfunctional public healthcare system to crumbling infrastructure.
But for many voters, distrust is not limited to the Conservatives, but to politicians in general. Right-wing stalwart Nigel Farage has bridged the gap with his Reform UK party, grabbing headlines and voters’ attention with his anti-immigration rhetoric.
The centrist Liberal Democrats and the environmentalist Green Party are also seeking to attract voters dissatisfied with the major parties.
Voters across the country say they want change, but they’re not optimistic it will come.
“I don’t know who’s right for me as a working person,” said Michelle Bird, a port worker in Southampton on England’s south coast who was undecided on whether to vote Labour or Conservative. “I don’t know if it’s the devil you know or the devil you don’t know.”
Connor Filsell, a young office worker living in a London suburb, wants a roof of his own.
He said, “I still stay at home. I want to get my own house, but the way things are going, it is not possible.”
Liz Butler, a senior lecturer in modern history at City University of London, said the signs pointed to this being “a game-changing election in which the Conservatives will be punished.” But she added that if Starmer wins, “the years ahead … could be challenging.”
“They’re probably going to be constantly attacked on a variety of grounds, both from the left and the right,” he said. “So I think the result of this election is clear, but I think all bets are off about what support for the Labour Party will be like over the next few years.”
Starmer agreed that his biggest challenge was “the mindset of some voters that everything is broken, nothing can be fixed.”
“And secondly, there’s a sense of mistrust in politics because there have been so many promises over the last 14 years that haven’t been fulfilled,” he told broadcaster ITV on Tuesday. “We have to step up and change that.”
Many election experts expect voter turnout to be low this time, down from the 67% recorded in 2019. Still, this election could bring about a change in Britain not seen in decades, provided Labour wins a big majority and the number of votes is low. conservative Party,
In Moreton-in-Marsh, a pretty town of honey-colored stone buildings in the Cotswold hills of western England, 25-year-old Evie Smith-Lomas had a chance to unseat the area’s long-serving Conservative MP.
“This seat has always been Tory, for 32 years, longer than I’ve been alive,” he said. “I’m excited by the prospect of someone new. I mean I think 32 years in any job is a long time. Surely by now you’d have no ideas left.”
