Tory leadership errors cost us dearly in local elections, says Priti Patel
Priti Patel will blame the Conservative leadership for the party's recent local election losses during a speech later
Ms Patel will say "errors and mistakes made by a minority in Westminster have cost [the] party dearly". She is expected to say that some colleagues in Westminster "have done a better job at damaging our party" over the last year than the opposition, left-wing campaign groups and "our enemies in the media combined".
"And perhaps if they did that, last week we would not have seen 1,000 of our friends and colleagues lose their seats in the local elections and dozens of councils fall out of Conservative control.
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