Before the party even thinks about a new leader, it needs the space to focus on the how and why it lost
These conversations always naturally float towards personalities after receiving its most thumping defeat. Some 250 seats are gone, with an overall tally far worse than the 1906 election wipeout. Eight Cabinet ministers have been ousted,. Now, let’s take the Conservative party’s more optimistic view: Labour has won this election because the Tory vote has collapsed, with a mere 10 percentage point lead. It is large but wafer-thin. Turnout was way down.
to dive straight into the big question of who should be the next Conservative leader before the party has thought It can’t be overstated what a mistake this would be. To reiterate, this has been a cataclysmic result. With, the Conservatives have to conjure up a plan exactly how it’ll win back all those voters lost — both in terms of a practical strategy but also the intellectual answer to the fracturing of the right. That has to be the question that defines this contest and the start of a project to rebuild the centre right. Until this is answered, a personality contest is pointless.
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