Boris Johnson under pressure: UK's Conservative Party loses 2 parliamentary seats
FOX NewsJUN 2022
The Spin
Right narrative
It's difficult to read too much into a midterm by-election result. Such events are usually the subject of protest votes, where apathetic voters stay home rather than come out as they would in a general election.
Left narrative
These by-elections are a representative snapshot of the mood of the country. People are sick of Tory rule, and MPs will have no choice but to remove Johnson as leader if they want any chance of the British public trusting them again.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 61% chance that Boris Johnson will be Prime Minister of the UK by 2023, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
