Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party loses historic strongholds in local elections

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The Conservative Party has suffered defeats in some historical fiefdoms in the local elections held this Thursday in the United Kingdom.

Westminster, in London, has fallen for the first time on the Labor side since its creation in 1964, Labor have also prevailed in Southampton. The ‘tories’ have lost control of two other strongholds as Wandswortha conservative fiefdom since the time of Margaret Thatcher, and Barnet.

In the absence of finalizing the counting of votes, the elections consolidate the upward trend of Laborwho win dozens of councilors, and the progressive decline of the Conservatives, to whom the BBC already granted this morning a setback of more than a hundred elected positions in England.

Despite Labor’s symbolic victories against the ‘Tories’, the Labor Party has failed to celebrate an overall victory that would have allowed their leader, Keir Starmer, vindicate himself as an alternative to Boris Johnson in Downing Street. The Liberal Democrat Party, which has also improved its data, has partly overshadowed Labor’s triumphs.

In any case, Starmer considers that it is a “great turning point”: “We have sent a message to the prime minister: the United Kingdom deserves better,” he proclaimed.

The president ofthe Conservative PartyOliver Dowden, has acknowledged in statements to Sky News that the formation has had “difficult results” in some squares, but has pointed out that, “certainly” Labor is not yet “on the road to power”.

In addition to In Englandthere was also local elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, although in these cases the count progresses more slowly. In Northern Ireland they have also held parliamentary elections where the nationalist party Sinn Féin aims to achieve victory for the first time.