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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden

Local elections could spell end of the party for UK's Johnson

Conservative Party Councillor Trevor Johnson delivers election leaflets to houses in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Britain, April 26, 2022. Picture taken April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble

John Jones is the sort of voter that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cannot afford to lose – but already has.

Jones, who backed Johnson's Conservatives at the national election three years ago when the party swept to a landslide victory, regrets his decision after the prime minister broke his own coronavirus lockdown laws to attend alcohol-fuelled gatherings in his Downing Street office.

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