“Some of that has really got into the body politic, and I think a lot of Tory voters have just said: ‘Right, I’ve had enough of this.’” While Sunak isn’t viewed in the same way as Johnson, I don’t think he has changed the Tory brand. “There is a feeling from very traditional Conservatives that this lot don’t have any integrity. I think it’s difficult for them to recover from this. It’s about their whole brand and that’s difficult to shift. It’s far more than whoever is in charge of the Tories now. There had been speculation that a sequence of Lib Dem successes in so-called blue wall commuter belt seats could be tempered by the arrival of Sunak, whose sober style was less likely to put off more traditional Conservative voters than the chaotic populism of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.īut Davey argued this did not seem to be the case: “Sunak hasn’t revived them.
A BBC-projected national vote share, which seeks to extrapolate how the parties would have done in a UK-wide general election, put the Lib Dems on 20% support, only six percentage points behind the Conservatives and better than any election since 2010.ĭavey marked the results by travelling to Windsor, where the Lib Dems wrested control of Windsor and Maidenhead councils from the Conservatives, an area taking in the parliamentary seat of Theresa May.
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