Labour activists unite to unseat Boris Johnson from his Uxbridge & Ruislip South constituency
The case 'is so overwhelming it barely needs writing'
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Your support makes all the difference.A group of Labour supporters converged on Boris Johnson’s constituency in a bid to unseat the Foreign Secretary at the next general election.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry Brexit Secretary Starmer and Labour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova all made speeches at a rally which was held in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency over the weekend.
Hundreds of people also knocked on doors in the area and promoted the event using the hashtag #UnseatBoris.
Mr Johnson has been the MP for the constituency since May 2015, but his majority against the Labour candidate more than halved in the June 2017 election.
It went from 10,695 against Chris Summers, his 2015 rival, to 5,034 against Vincent Lo, Labour's candidate the last time Britain went to the polls.
A spokesperson for Mr Johnson did not respond to a request for comment.
“The case for campaigning to replace Boris Johnson with a Labour MP is so overwhelming it barely needs writing,” columnist Owen Jones wrote on the Facebook page promoting the event.
“Johnson who only opportunistically backed Brexit because he thought it would help his political career,” he wrote.
“Johnson who had a radio interview so calamitous that if he was - say - a black woman, his career would be over.
"Johnson who reduces this great country to an international laughing stock as Foreign Secretary.”
Mr. Johnson met with controversy during a recent trip to New Zealand when he joked that the Maori greeting could be mistaken for a head butt.
A number of other seats are thought to be targetted by Labour supporters.
They include the Cumbrian seat of Copeland, which was won by Conservative MP Trudy Harrison in the February 2017 by-election.
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