Neil Parish resigns after admitting to watching pornography in the Commons
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are on course to lose 550 council seats in the local elections, a new poll claims.
The survey, published in The Daily Telegraph, says Labour will hold 3,500 council seats – a gain of more than 80.
Meanwhile, the Tories will retain just under 980, a fall of 548, according to the survey of 1,749 adults in the 201 councils going to the polls on Thursday.
Earlier Mr Johnson admitted that the financial support offered by his government is not enough to “help cover everybody” through the cost of living crisis in the months ahead.
The prime minister again rejected Labour’s call for a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas giants despite BP recording record £5bn profits – insisting that fossil firms “have to invest”.
