Boris Johnson must not take voters for granted and deliver more jobs and more cops in ex-Red Wall seats

Boris, beware

THERE are a few warning signs Boris ­Johnson must not ignore despite his ­election triumphs.

First, though, let no one swallow Labour’s desperate spin.

A few mayors aside, plus a solid performance in Wales, last Thursday was a calamity for Keir Starmer.

Hence the panicked reshuffle.

The Tories gained nearly 300 seats and 12 councils and easily outpolled Labour even in Scotland.

Voters installed a Tory MP in once solidly red Hartlepool, with Batley and Spen possibly soon to follow.

Local elections are useless predictors of general elections.

But Boris should still heed the number of his councillors ousted in normally strong Tory areas.

There is a danger, with his focus on the Midlands and North, that Tory ­voters elsewhere will feel hard done by.

The PM must remember that, as his “levelling-up” mission is fleshed out in today’s Queen’s Speech.

As for the former Red Wall seats, they’ll want visible progress before we next go to the polls in two or three years: Boarded-up shops reopened.

More jobs.

More cops and less crime.

But, Boris, don’t take others for granted.

Many of them were voting Conservative long before everyone else joined in.

Happy Monday

WE’RE with Bob Geldof on the subject of Mondays.

But next week’s an exception.

You can hug your gran.

You can go in a pub for a pint.

You can hug your pint

Schoolkids can ditch masks.

Students can return to uni.

Cinemas, theatres and sports grounds will reopen.

Overnight stays are back on

And why not?

Yesterday NO Covid deaths were recorded in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

The vaccines, and the stellar rollout staffed by our Jabs Army, are behind this fantastic upturn in our fortunes.

Let’s keep it going.

The 20-40 age bracket currently has the most infections.

If you’re under 40, do get your jab when you get the call.

Even if the virus wouldn’t hit you hard you could still pass it to others — or even suffer from “long Covid”.

Don’t think you don’t need it.

Fishy Sturgeon

NICOLA Sturgeon’s boast that a new independence referendum is the “will of the Scottish people” is a ridiculous lie.

For all the seats she won, more voters backed unionist parties than the SNP or pro-independence Greens, outpolling them in 38 of 73 Scottish constituencies.

Some who opted for the nationalists were duped by another Sturgeon falsehood — that their choice was really over who should handle the Covid recovery.

Now she claims those votes give her toxic referendum a mandate.

Polling actually shows less than half want it.

The SNP has only one aim and will stop at nothing.

Its lies are shameless and habitual.