“Yes, its a storm in a teacup but storms-in-teacups can have significant political ramifications.”<\/p>\n
Professor Richard Whitman<\/a>, Professor of Politics and International Relations joined BBC Radio Kent to discuss the row over Boris Johnson’s flat refurbishment costs.<\/p>\n The Electoral Commission have launched a formal enquiry into the costs of the redecoration of the Prime Minister’s flat at No 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n Labour leader Keir Starmer used the issue for considerable political currency at PMQ’s on the 29th April, and revealed a less than jovial side of Boris Johnson in the Houses of Parliament.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n “The opposition have been given a gift here”Professor Richard Whitman commented, but went on to speculate whether the issue has effected Johnson’s popularity with the electorate and suggests that with the upcoming Hartlepool by-election on May 6th (a ‘red wall’ seat, that historically supported the Labour Party but where there is increasing Conservative support) that Starmer may be the one feeling the pressure.<\/p>\n Listen to the comments in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Yes, its a storm in a teacup but storms-in-teacups can have significant political ramifications.” Professor Richard Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations joined BBC … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[243988,244000,243998,244001,243999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"