Cultural Secretary Lucy Frazer has blamed heavy Tory losses in this week’s local elections on the pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Speaking to Sky News this morning (May 7), Ms Frazer said she understood that voters were ‘frustrated and angry’ and acknowledged that the party now needed time to reflect following the results of the local ballots.
The Conservatives shed 960 councillors in Thursday’s poll, including nine seats in Bolton where every seat was up for grabs. Before the election, the Tories were the largest party in the borough and had run the council as a minority administration but they now sit in second place behind Labour, who gained seven seats.
