The Local Elections will not likely be the biggest headache for Johnson. It's what comes after that will
The BBC provides a rather helpful guide here to tell you whether a local election is happening anywhere near to you.
There are none near me, incidentally, and perhaps there are none near you either - for many Conservatives, this might be a sigh of relief.
It would have been welcomed, for example, in the beautiful Somerset constituency of Frome North where candidate Dawn Denton’s hopes to replace the outgoing Tory Somerset County Council leader have been dashed following a speight of ‘poster burnings’ with Denton’s face on them.
For Conservatives, this may be disconcerting and rather worrying.
Reports from The Times, too, suggesting that voters in West Bromwich consider Rishi Sunak to be “like Del Boy” and that Sunak is, “[trying] to sell you a silver spoon but you get it out of the packet and it’s made of wood” - are hardly likely to provide the Conservatives with much confidence going into the local elections.
Following months and months of scandals - resignations, sackings, actual bona-fide lawlessness and public offences from Downing St. itself, rancour towards certain votes [Owen Paterson immediately springs to mind], the public appears to have had enough.
Members of the public such as 75-year-old retired hospital supplies manager John who tells Reuters that he won’t be supporting the Conservatives - despite doing so in 2019 - because he is, “absolutely disgusted at the way [Johnson] has behaved” and has “had enough of watching him act like a clown.”