Well, Boris has done two huge things that were very popular: he got Brexit done and he got us vaccinated fast.
This is what I have to tell people over here, and what I should tell you over there. The centre is in a very different place in the US and UK, but hardly anyone on either side of the Atlantic knows it.
Labour traditionally is about where Bernie Sanders is on the spectrum. Recently, they have adopted woke ideas. So if you want woke socialism, Labour is your party. But in the UK, that doesn't win a majority in many places. And the woke stuff doesn't go down well in the Labour heartlands where people talk more plainly, whereas Brexit does.
Biden's Democrats want many of the same things the non-ideological people in the UK's Conservative party want. Renewable energy. Cheap national healthcare. Regulated markets. A safety net. Support for small business. Business incentives without gross inequality. Science. Secularism. That set of policies wins here as it does there.
But these are mostly local elections so no real impact on parliament. The only thing that really counts is Scotland in this election.
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