The party aims to come back strongly in the West Midlands. But Boris Johnson seems relatively unscathed by scandal
“The only thing I’ve heard is something about wallpaper,” says Simon Bennett, who is busy unloading a box of petunias at the fruit, veg and flower stall he helps run in Dudley market. To him all the news about Tory sleaze and spending by Boris Johnson on his Downing Street flat seems an overblown fuss about not very much.
Bennett describes himself as a floating voter and is yet to make up his mind about how to vote in Thursday’s local council and mayoral elections, if he votes at all. As for Johnson’s suitability to run the country, it is too early. “He has said he will sort out Brexit and Covid. We’ll just have to see if he delivers.”
