South Yorkshire could see Tory tide turn despite Boris Johnson’s response to floods

This was Boris Johnson meeting flooding victims in Fishlake on November 13.

Now there’s a growing expectation that the Tories could win two, possibly, three seats on Thursday in a county that has not returned a Conservative MP to Westminster since 1992.

Boris Johnson’s five flooding failures make Jeremy Corbyn look credible as PM finally visits Doncaster – Tom Richmond

And the fact that these Tory targets include Don Valley, one of the areas worst affected by the floods, speaks volumes in an era which, until relatively recently, burned effigies of former Conservative premiers.

Boris Johnson was not universally welcomed when he met flooding victims in South Yorkshire.

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Evidence of the volatility of the electorate as a particularly unedifying campaign draws to a close, it is also an indictment on the Labour party’s failure to make sufficient headway under Jeremy Corbyn.

Now Boris Johnson and low-profile Environment Secretary must match the community’s response to Doncaster flooding emergency – The Yorkshire Post says

After a decade of austerity, three Tory premiers, questions of trust and political chaos over Brexit, this, in normal times, should have been Labour’s election to lose. Yet the fact that another hung parliament appears to be the party’s best hope does not augur well when Boris Johnson’s initial response to the floods left much to be desired.

Jeremy Corbyn was the first party leader to visit South Yorkshire flooding victims,

Perhaps Mr Johnson can walk on water. As South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation, says, the worst affected areas were those commuities with a disproportionate number of families on low incomes – making it even more important that politicians and officials are held to account. This is why The Yorkshire Post today reiterates its previous challenge to Mr Johnson to match the £500,000 that SYCF has already raised for flooding victims – it is the least that the Government should be doing.

Furthermore Mr Johnson will be expected, if he wins a mandate, to put in place a programme for social and economic renewal which benefits the whole country – he will only be able to blame Brexit for any inaction for so long.

South Yorkshire could see Tory tide turn despite Boris Johnson’s response to floods – The Yorkshire Post says