Tory campaign manager Isaac Levido’s remarks to the 1922 Committee…

Some of you may have noticed there is an MRP model in a newspaper today.

⁠The idea that this poll and model is the most authoritative one published in the last five years is just false – it’s just another poll, another MRP model, with the same margins of error, the same statistical limitations as any other.

And you know your constituencies better than me, better than any media commentators and certainly better than any public pollster.

But the people who organised this poll and analysed and timed the release of it seem to be intent on undermining this government and our party, and therefore the re-election prospects of every single one of you in this room.

They seem to be throwing in the towel, and are more interested in what happens after the election rather than fighting it – making the pathway narrower and steeper

Let me be clear. ⁠Divided parties fail.

It’s time to get serious – I am fighting to win this election, and I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe it was possible. We all need to be be fighting to win this election.

People do not want Starmer. They are looking for reasons to vote for us. We must not give them any more reasons not to.