BBC East political editor Andrew Sinclair looks at the challenges facing the North West Essex MP as leader.
Local members of the Conservative party have expressed hope that their new leader can return them to winning form following their historic defeat in July's general election and a series of poor local election results.
Now Essex also has Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK MPs as well as Tories. Across the region the party with the largest number of seats is Labour.The seats that saw the largest fall in the party's vote anywhere in the UK were Clacton, down 44%, South West Norfolk, down 43%, Great Yarmouth, down 41%, and South Basildon and Thurrock, down by 40%.
"She will speak to those voters we've lost and the best way to do it is, as she has said, to be honest about the situation we're in as a party but also where we are as a country. "I quite admire the fact that she tells it like it is. She doesn't tell people what they want to hear if she doesn't agree with it and appeal to the populism movement.Tom Hunt, the former Tory MP for Ipswich who lost his seat this summer, said: "I thought we had the two strongest candidates in the final two.
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