(Agence France-Presse, London, 5th) According to the results of local elections held in many parts of England yesterday, according to the results released today, in the first major election test that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces since he came to power last year, the ruling Conservative Party of the United Kingdom suffered a shocking situation. A major setback for concern.
There are more than 8,000 district council members to be elected in England’s 230 districts, and the counting of the votes will not be completed until later in the day. The election result will provide a glimpse into the strength of political parties in Britain’s expected parliamentary election next year, as Britain is in the midst of its worst cost of living crisis in decades.
As of 7:40 am local time today (2:40 pm Taipei time on the 5th), 60 districts have announced election results. The Conservative Party led by Rishi Sunak lost 209 MPs, a third of the seats the Conservatives were holding.
Labor, the biggest opposition party, added 110 MPs and won seats in such valued states as Plymouth in southwest England, Medway in the southeast and Stoke-on-Trent in the midlands. Liancheng’s constituency took control of parliament.
If the final result of this election follows the same trend, it will be the biggest local election defeat for the center-right Conservative Party since the mid-1990s. At that time, the Labor Party won a landslide victory in the subsequent parliamentary election, and then the leader of the party, Tony Blair, became the prime minister.
The Labor Party has been complacent about the current results and believes that the trend is clear. Shabana Mahmood, an MP who is Labor’s national campaign coordinator, said: “These results are a disaster for Sunak, with voters chasing him down for failing to govern the Conservative Party. These results show that we are headed for a A Labor majority government.”
British Deputy Transport Secretary Merriman (Huw Merriman) blamed the ugly election results of his Conservative Party on the successive replacement of two party leaders and Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Boris Johnson) and Liz Truss (Liz Truss) in just a few weeks last year of chaos.
He told the BBC that local voters “kept talking about old news about several former prime ministers” but also had a positive view of the current Conservative leader. He emphasized that Sunak’s ruling direction is correct.
However, the Labor Party’s Mahmoud reckons that the Labor Party will win the national election next year by more than 8 percentage points over the Conservative Party, enough for Labor leader Keir Starmer to become prime minister.
According to national opinion polls in the UK, the Labor Party has a double-digit lead over the Conservative Party. The Labor Party has also set the local election as a referendum on “the failure of the Conservative Party in 13 years in power”. (Translator: Zhang Zhengqian / Verified manuscript: Chen Zhengjian)
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2023-05-05 13:05:06
