Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has finally resigned as Tory Party leader amid a raft of scandals and controversies, first visited the Nottingham Post offices in May of 2017 when he was Foreign Secretary. Here he claimed he was "seldom away from Nottingham" before making a number of promises and vanishing for two years, returning most recently to attempt to deny breaking his HS2 vow to the region. His leadership has left a mark locally, but perhaps not as much as many had hoped for - and needed. Agenda Editor Joseph Locker reports.
Back in 2017 Mr Johnson had been campaigning for the Conservative candidate for Nottingham South, an area of the city in the firm grasp of Labour's Lilian Greenwood and under the party's control as far back as 1992. Here he was pressed on how the Conservative Party could benefit a city which has for years been economically underperforming and inhabited by a creative, hardworking people desperately in need of investment.
He left the offices stating "I think Nottingham will go from strength to strength and there are ways we could really help" before soon launching his campaign for ultimate control of Downing Street. Mr Johnson was back in 2019 as the Prime Minister, when he disappointingly turned down a Doughnotts donut, having successfully seized control with his charisma and a will to enter a new hard-line era of Tory politics with a clampdown on immigration and his "oven-ready" Brexit plan.
