Boris Johnson could return to his original political home in rural Oxfordshire in search of a safe seat in the next election, Tory MPs are speculating. The former Prime Minister is understood to be looking for a house in the county where he was first an MP, representing Henley.
During his exclusive interview with Nadine Dorries on Talk TV, Mr Johnson insisted he is “focused” on working for his constituents in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
But questions are being asked about whether he could hold onto that seat in west London at the next election with the boundary changes apparently making it a Labour gain.
According to Electoral Calculus, the Tories have a mere 9 percent chance of winning Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2024 with a predicted majority for Labour of 9,256.
It would be a huge turnaround from 2019 when Mr Johnson easily won the constituency with 52.6 percent of the vote and a majority of 7,210.
But now fellow Conservative MPs believe that his house hunting in Oxfordshire is also linked for the search for a safe seat to come back in the next Parliament.
In particular, the county is seeing a new seat added for Bicester and Woodstock which includes parts of Mr Johnson’s former Henley seat, former Prime Minister David Cameron’s old Witney seat, parts of Banbury and Abingdon.
