Fewer than 300 losses: This would see the party winning council seats back from Independents, with Labour and the Lib Dems not prospering.Here are the performance benchmarks - and how each party actually did: There were 8,000 seats up for grabs in the 2023 local elections that took place last Thursday.Īround 70% of the English electorate was eligible to cast a ballot, and it gave us a real indication of what we might see at the next general election. Mr Harri also revealed that Rishi Sunak did not even 'text' Mr Johnson when he decided to resign last July - and run for the Tory leadership. He was also asked about how well partygate investigator Sue Gray was respected in the Conservative Party, and joked that he had heard the phrase 'Psycho Sue Gray' used. 'What was it for him to call a key government policy appalling?' Mr Harri said it 'wasn't a fight,' but: 'Boris rightly challenged the unelected royal at the time. 'They did have a bit of a showdown, but for the reason that the man who is now King criticised. He said: 'This is one story that was pretty topical this weekend. There was more to Mr Johnson than the controversy surrounding gatherings in Number 10 during COVID restrictions in 20, he insisted. Guto Harri, Number 10's former director of communications, has now told LBC that his intention in speaking about his time in Downing Street as part of a podcast series was to put 'partygate in perspective'. We reported earlier about claims that Boris Johnson 'went in quite hard' against King Charles over the Rwanda scheme.

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