Boris Johnson warns… “message of the European election results is clear. If we go on like this, we will be dismissed”
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Boris Johnson, the favorite to replace Theresa May, at the helm of the Conservative Party, warned his party it must deliver Brexit or face a ‘permanent hemorrhage’ of voters after a disastrous night of European election results.
The Conservative Party finished fifth with just nine per cent of the vote in England and Wales and seem on course for their worst election performance since 1832 after losing 15 seats.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Johnson said the message from the results was clear over Brexit.
His leadership rival Jeremy Hunt warned the Tories faced an “existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done”.
Johnson agreed, adding: “If we fail yet again to discharge that mandate, then I fear we will see a permanent hemorrhage of Conservative support, and loyal voters who have left us to join the Brexit Party (and others) may simply never come back.”
The Conservatives won 19 MEP seats in 2014 – this morning their tally stood at just three.
The Brexit Party took 28 seats, while a resurgent Liberal Democrat party had gone from a single MEP to 14.
Labour lost seats but still held 11, while the Greens with seven MEPs pushed the Tories into fifth place.
