UK: Chairman of ruling party resigns after by-election defeat
A few weeks earlier, Johnson had “slipped through the narrow door” to overcome a vote of no confidence within the ruling party.
In the run-up to the by-election there had been speculation that the Conservatives would lose, and Johnson said on Monday he would not resign if this happened.
The chairman of the ruling Conservative Party, Oliver Dowden, has announced his resignation after the party suffered two simultaneous defeats in the June 23 parliamentary elections.
Oliver James Dowden CBE is a British politician who has served as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot since 2021.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party suffered two simultaneous defeats in the June 23 parliamentary elections, including the loss of a representative seat in south-west England that had been held by the party’s representatives for a century.
