News about UK, Boris Johnson

Rishi Sunak was facing renewed Conservative unrest on Saturday night after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests including London, and Labour claimed victory in its flagship West Midlands. www.ft.com/content/0bb4fa46-0bcb-4afe-a2a9-530bfe3a2be2

Braverman also says it’s the PM who owns these results & it’s on him to fix. “At this rate we’ll be lucky to have any Con MPs after next GE”. Echoes what I was picking up about lack of appetite oust RS, which Braverman acknowledging while also setting stage for shift to right

Times weekend read on dire local election results for Tories: * Cabinet ministers say Tories heading for defeat - the only question now is the scale of the loss *But Tory rebels lay down their arms and head to the pub after conceding there isn’t appetite to remove Sunak *…

So the two responses to these results from the Conservatives has either been to say: 1) The plan is working and we just need to tell voters more loudly that they're wrong not to see it 2) Let's mimic Reform UK, who won a grand total of 2 seats across the country, a little more.