News about election, Boris Johnson

EXCL: @RobertJenrick tells me local elex results “appalling” & “point towards a very serious defeat for at GE” unless tories can ‘change course’ & win back Reform voters (& says again what he told @LBC: Farage would be welcome into Tory party) via @NifS news.sky.com/story/tories-must-stop-drift-to-reform-says-robert-jenrick-as-he-says-he-would-welcome-nigel-farage-into-party-13131530

The Conservative party's latest big idea to avoid losing elections? Just stop people from voting bylinetimes.com/2024/05/07/postal-voting-ban-conservative-mp-brendan-clarke-smith-local-election-defeats/

Another week, another Tory MP defects to Labour. Natalie Elphicke, Dover, crosses the floor just in time for #PMQs.. The slowest general election in history continues..

NEW: Rishi Sunak insists the general election result is not a “foregone conclusion” despite disastrous set of local election results and the Tories struggling to close gap with Labour in the polls.