His comments are expected to cause uproar in the old Red Wall mining communities the Tories have won over in recent election, where bitter strikes were held during Ms Thatcher's time in office in the mid-1980s
I bet they don't, really.
Boris is like Teflon and he's well enough liked. Inconceivable that ex-mining towns forgot how the Tories took away livelihoods; memories are short it appears, and people don't care.
Agree he's a grade-A cunt but, he's well enough liked. If there were an election shortly I've no doubt he'd be re-elected as PM