"He (Mr Sunak) may be pulling the Tory party up. While he said he still expected the Conservatives would lose seats in May, he would not expect the losses to be as great as if the elections had been held a few weeks ago. In contrast, Lord Hayward said that recent council by-election results suggested something of an upturn in the Tories' fortunes under Mr Sunak. Boris's polling is far worse than is the case for Rishi."
"People have moved away from Boris in numbers. "He is a serious negative for most people," he said. Lord Hayward suggested Mr Johnson's determination to contest allegations that he lied to parliament would not go down well with voters. In a pre-election presentation for journalists, he said that while voters had not forgotten the partygate scandal, it was having a "diminishing" impact on perceptions of the Conservatives.
Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer, said the party was not "out of the woods" but there were signs of progress ahead of crucial council elections in England next month. Rishi Sunak appears to be "pulling up" the Tories in the polls, while Boris Johnson remains a "serious negative" for most voters, according to an elections expert.
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