Following Boris Johnson’s departure from Downing Road, stories emerged that he and his spouse Carrie Johnson put their £1.6million Camberwell, south London, dwelling up on the market.
Mr and Mrs Johnson are reported to have chosen as their put up Downing Road dwelling a five-bedroom home on the borders of neighbouring Dulwich Village.
The realm is positioned within the constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood, which within the 2016 Brexit referendum voted to stay within the EU by an estimated 78 %.
Dulwich and West Norwood has additionally by no means returned a Conservative MP to Parliament since its creation in 1997.
The constituency returned Labour MP Helen Hayes to Parliament in 2019 with 66 % of the vote, whereas the Tory candidate was overwhelmed into third place by the Greens.
An area resident advised The i, who reported on Mr Johnson’s transfer: “I can see Carrie becoming proper in.
“Everybody with youngsters has a canine, we’re not removed from Dulwich Park, however all of us learn The Guardian and voted in opposition to Brexit spherical right here, I feel Boris would possibly really feel like a fish out of water.”
Freya Jackson, 29, an NHS employee, additionally advised the outlet: “The one cause I’d wish to see Boris round right here is so I can inform him to his face what a t*** he’s.”
One other resident bemoaned the potential transfer, and stated: “All anybody will say once they hear I reside in Herne Hill is that Boris lives there.”
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A former Tory minister advised The i: “He feels onerous carried out by and the membership don’t need to see him go.
“There are a lot within the parliamentary social gathering who suppose he needs to be completed. However everyone knows that isn’t Boris’s type. He’s certainly one of life’s nice opportunists.
“And given the epic scale of the challenges his successor faces, it might be rash to write down him off.”
Polling from Savanta ComRes additionally discovered 60 % of Conservative voters noticed Mr Johnson as an asset to the social gathering.
Nevertheless, the pollsters additionally discovered greater than half of all voters stated the previous Prime Minister shouldn’t be in a position to return to frontline politics.
In the meantime, the Telegraph reported Mr Johnson might run as a MP within the Pink Wall northern constituencies subsequent election.
The outlet reported that senior Tory strategists have accepted Mr Johnson might lose his Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat to an enormous campaigning effort by Labour.
The strategists worry ousting Mr Johnson could be as symbolic as when Nick Clegg was pushed out of Sheffield Hallam by Labour in 2017, and one thought is to discover a seat within the north of England to permit him to rebuild his base.
One buddy advised the outlet: “He would possibly go for a Northern seat. He has not resigned as an MP. I might suppose he wouldn’t battle Uxbridge, and he would in a Northern seat, an enormous Brexit seat.
“That might be the comeback for him, and he might do this earlier than the subsequent election. It’s a nice answer.
“He feels an obligation to the Pink Wall voters. He stated on the final election ‘I perceive that you’ve lent me your votes within the Pink Wall seats’.”
