The Tories have been updating their merchandise selection recently. Now that the iconic Keir Starmer Flip Flops have been discontinued…
There’s some brass neck on display as the Party quietly adds the 2024 manifesto, dubbed “The Onward Manifesto,” to its shop. For £10.99 the policies that dispatched 11 cabinet ministers (the most in history) and secured the worst Tory defeat in their parliamentary history could be yours. Please allow up to five days for delivery… or maybe fourteen years…
Parliamentary watchdog the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) doubled the taxpayer cash losing MPs would receive last year. Golden goodbyes shot up as losing MPs are now paid for four months after departing the Commons, as opposed to two. IPSA claimed this was to ensure the payouts were “fair and provide the appropriate support to MPs and their offices when leaving Parliament”. That’s something in the region of £21,180 per MP…
MPs already have redundancy packages at twice the amount enjoyed by regular workers. Seeing as 175 incumbent Tory MPs got the boot in July, the taxpayer is in the process of forking out £3,706,500 in golden goodbyes. Cheers, Rishi…
CCHQ have sent round a rather rose-tinted memo celebrating candidates’ “energy, effort and dedication” which put the party in “a strong position” following what most would agree was actually a Tory wipeout. Patting themselves on the back for the achievement of losing 251 seats…
The email, dripping with misplaced optimism, goes on to thank candidates for everything they did, asking them to record the “immense hard work” of their campaigns. Guido suspects most candidates would rather forget one of the worst election defeats in history…
Read the full email below:
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 last photos from former PM Sunak’s No 10 were released on Flickr.com today. If you woke up to see these you’d think he’d won a landslide…
Are they happy that they put the entire party through the meat grinder six months earlier than they needed to, only to cull hundreds of Tory MPs? Did Sunak want to spend more time on his Peloton?
A senior Tory source has it bluntly: “He’s literally doing the f**king conga after wiping out the party.” Even Starmer’s welcome reception was more muted than this…
Keir Starmer is making his first speech as Prime Minister, surrounded by Labourites.
WATCH LIVE: Keir Starmer’s first speech as Prime Minister. https://t.co/GuYVhkcCxt
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 5, 2024
He better rush through things to get it all done before that 6 p.m. clock off point…
Read the full speech below:
