Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly said his party cannot get back into government unless it retakes the Black Country and the West Midlands.
Mr Cleverly was talking to the Express & Star after delivering his address on the final day of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
"If we can't win across the Black Country and the West Midlands, we are not going to be back into government," he said.Mr Cleverly said the party lost the trust of voters in the West Midlands because it spent to much time focusing on internal matters, and not enough on the problems that people in the region were experiencing.
"And when people are finding their lives tricky, when bills are going up, and the world is uncertain, we want to see politicians focusing relentlessly on them."Let's not argue with the voters, let's listen to what they said, get our act into gear, and get back into office at the first possible opportunity."
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