Kemi has been chatting to staff in CCHQ. It’s been a ghost ship with a skeleton crew in the long period since the election…
They key points as briefed out by the Tories are:
- Don’t have to do things they way they’ve always been done. Time to try something different. Let your creative juices flow. Guido looks forward to seeing the results of that one…
- First challenge is winning back council seats in May next year.
- Local government leaders need to be brought in and and listened to. Tory Party must be more open.
- Nigel Huddleston is Co-Chairman because of his broad experience of the party – as a councillor, candidate, whip, minister and vice-chairman.
- Dominic Johnson has a similarly broad experience as a treasurer, a councillor, a candidate, and a minister.
- No policy yet, but soon. Start with principles and the things that bind us as Conservatives together: freedom of speech, freedom of association, free enterprise, personal responsibility – what distinguishes us from all the parties of the left who think more government is the answer to everything.
- We can turn this around in one term. Ambitious…
Shadow Cabinet announcements are inbound. Ahead of an actually-combative PMQs on Wednesday…
