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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Paul Routledge

'Local elections showed voters would like to get their hands on this government'

In our daily poll, Mirror readers voted 97% in favour of having a general election now.

We won’t get it, of course, because the Tories changed the law so that Rishi Sunak can go to the country whenever he thinks he can con the electorate into returning him.

There is a clear democratic deficit here. Last week’s local elections signalled that voters would dearly like to get their hands on a government running on empty after 13 wasted years.

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