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Boris Johnson wants to hold an early general election while Jeremy Corbyn is still around, senior allies have said as his team plans to overhaul the Conservative Partys campaign machine.
The frontrunner for the Tory leadership appeared last night at a fundraising dinner with his rival, Jeremy Hunt, that was attended by 100 Conservative donors in an attempt to boost the party coffers and build an election war chest.
The £1,000-a-head event in central London, where donors questioned the candidates directly, was intended to help to secure more than £1 million. Sources said that the party had been left in dire financial straits under Theresa May after donors abandoned it amid concerns over Brexit.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conservative-leadership-race-boris-johnson-plans-early-election-to-hit-corbyn-h7d0rq090
BannonsLiver
(16,530 posts)Corbyn is a disaster. Will be a hard lesson for Labour to learn, Im afraid.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)It will lilely backfire on the lib dems favor
BannonsLiver
(16,530 posts)Which is that it is a dumpster fire under Corbyn.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-general-election_uk_5d2e3594e4b0a873f6431034
And the Liberal Dems arent exactly world beaters either. Sadly, Its all set up nicely for BoJo. To deny that is to deny current realities. Corbyn had his chance in 2017.
DeltaLitProf
(770 posts). . . they'd jettison Corbin and his anti-Semitic baggage, and rally behind David Lammy, a brilliant young man who is eloquent and can actually attract votes for his party.