Boris Johnson is refusing to rule out of political comeback as Prime Minister just as voters are demanding that his successor calls an early general election.
The lame duck Tory Prime Minister was asked repeatedly about reports he is plotting a political comeback while starting his farewell tour of the United Kingdom.
On a visit to a broadband provider in Wiltshire the outgoing P rime Minister claimed people are more interested in broadband than “the fate of this or that politician”.
Johnson’s last week in office, which could include a foray into Scotland, comes before his successor is due to be announced on Monday and be appointed by the Queen on Tuesday.
Johnson’s insistence that people are more interested in “today” than whether he was finished with frontline politics came as a new poll showed a public appetite for an immediate general election.
With Liz Truss likely to take up office on Tuesday she will come under immediate pressure to call a General Election within months according to the poll.
The Ipsos survey for London’s Evening Standard showed 51 per cent of adults support an election this year, with only 20 per cent taking the opposite view.
Even among Conservative 2019 voters, 40 per cent back Liz Truss, or Rishi Sunak, going to the country once in Downing St to seek her or his own mandate to govern, compared to 34 per cent who are against such a move.
The findings contrast with the reaction to Theresa May calling a snap election in 2017 which was memorably slammed by “Brenda from Bristol” who said: “You’re joking. Not another one? Oh for God’s sake... I can’t stand this.”
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