After the few Tories left have finished licking their wounds after the wipeout on Thursday night, they’ll be thinking about what went wrong and how to win over the electorate next time round. One statistic from Focaldata they’ll want to look at is the drop in support amongst Leave voters. The Tories no longer look like the party of Brexit opportunities…
The Conservatives lost a whopping 42 points among 2016 Leave voters, only picking up 33% compared to 74% in 2019. Unsurprisingly, 27% sided with Reform UK, while 23% voted for Labour. The Tories lost all 28 Red Wall seats they won last election in the process. With this recent cohort of Tory MPs looking more centre-left than right, and the Labour government targetting ever closer ties with the EU, Leave voters may be more politically homeless than ever…
The mad rush of former Tory staffers scrambling to snag a new Parliamentary role has led to the Work 4 MP Jobs application site crashing this morning. The server has reached its limit…
As if it wasn’t hard enough already for those left unemployed to secure a new job…
Spare a thought for the following 12 cabinet ministers, who lost their seats last night:
- Gillian Keegan – Education Secretary.
- Grant Shapps – Defence Secretary.
- Penny Mordaunt – Commons Leader.
- Alex Chalk – Justice Secretary.
- Lucy Frazer – Culture Secretary.
- David TC Davies – Welsh Secretary.
- Simon Hart – Chief Whip.
- Michelle Donelan – Innovation and Technology Secretary.
- Victoria Prentis – Attorney General.
- Johnny Mercer – Veterans Minister.
- Michael Tomlinson – Illegal Migration Minister.
- Mark Harper – Transport Secretary
A new record…
Rishi Sunak’s chief of staff, Liam Booth-Smith, has been awarded a life peerage in the dissolution honours list. He stays on in the Westminster scene…
Joining him are former Prime Minister Theresa May, ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, and former 1922 Committee Chair Sir Graham Brady. Congrats…
Suella Braverman has penned a blistering op-ed for The Telegraph, doing the Tories no favours as they make a last-ditch effort before tomorrow’s polls. Declaring the election “over,” Braverman argued the real fight is to save the Tories from extinction, lauding Reform UK and its leader, Nigel Farage:
“Today the grandees – who, remember, bear no responsibility for the fate of the party they have led – lash out at Nigel Farage and Reform. I don’t agree with Mr Farage on everything, but we Tories need to reflect honestly and with humility to ask ourselves how a start-up party, with very little infrastructure, has galvanised the electorate and lured so many of our lifelong supporters?
The Reform phenomenon was predictable, avoidable and is entirely our own fault. This simple fact seems to be lost on my colleagues who have driven our party’s bus off the side of the cliff, while angrily blaming those of us who kept pointing at the obvious signs saying: “Cliff Edge Dead Ahead, Bad for Buses”.
Throughout the campaign, Braverman has suggested the Tories find a way to work with Farage, though that olive branch was quickly rebuffed by the Reform leader, who promised “all marriages were off.” Braverman has been rumoured to have her eyes set on a leadership bid, with her website, suella4leader.co.uk, last updated in June. Is this a not so subtle sign she might defect?
UPDATE: Farage says he backs Braverman’s admission that the Tories deserve to lose votes: “All she’s saying is what we have been saying throughout the campaign. The only logical conclusion you can take from her evisceration of her own party is that if you want to see people in the Commons fighting for the policies she espouses and standing up to Starmer, you need to vote for Reform UK.“
Boris Johnson has stormed back onto the campaign trail with a bang, less than two days before the nation heads to the polls. In a rousing appearance, the former Prime Minister took centre stage in central London, introducing Rishi Sunak to a crowd of Tory supporters. He delivered stark warnings of the potential “disaster” of a Labour victory in one last push to rally the troops. That’ll please the 2019 voters…
Read Boris’ full speech below:
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Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
