Guido hears that Kemi summoned an all-staff call at CCHQ today, rallying the wider party. After 100 days in LOTO, Kemi’s verdict is that machine “must do better”, saying party members told her during the leadership election they “wanted everyone in CCHQ sacked,” with some even saying they should “burn the whole place down.” At the time she defended CCHQ—now that she’s seen it up close, she’s shifting course…
While praising some staff for their work, she called out others for not pulling their weight warning that if staff don’t believe in the party’s mission, they “shouldn’t be here”. Complaints about poor performance followed—some responses to her requests were “not good.” She went on to say that staff have “two jobs: campaigning and fundraising. If you’re not doing something to make either of those happen, you’re not doing your job right.” Sound words of advice while Reform gain in the polls…
A LOTO source said:“Kemi has a mandate to renew the Conservative Party from top to bottom to ensure we rid the country of this terrible Labour government who are already doing so much damage, and she won’t hesitate in making the changes that are necessary for that to happen.” Meanwhile, if you want to see real political impact, just read Guido…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”