Priti Patel: In the local elections, Tory leadership mistakes cost us dearly.
Priti Patel, a former home secretary, will subsequently accuse “those in power and control” of the Conservative Party of being too responsible for the party’s severe defeats in local elections.
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“Errors and mistakes made by a minority in Westminster have cost [the] party dearly,” Ms. Patel will remark. She will be one of several prominent Conservative MPs to address the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a brand-new grassroots Boris Johnson supporter organization. The Tory Party claimed to have nothing to say. Ms. Patel is extremely critical of the leadership of the Conservative Party in excerpts from the speech that were seen by the BBC. She is anticipated to claim that during the past year, some Westminster colleagues “have done a better job at damaging our party” than the opposition, left-wing advocacy organisations, and “our enemies in the media combined.”
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The Witham-based Conservative MP will argue that if party leaders spent more time with the party’s grassroots, they would be more in tune with the populace and our beliefs. And perhaps if they had done so, we wouldn’t have witnessed 1,000 of our friends and colleagues lose their seats in the recent local elections, as well as the loss of Conservative authority over dozens of councils. The former cabinet minister is anticipated to declare that the base of our party must never again be marginalized, disregarded, or ignored. In the English local elections held in May, the Conservatives lost control of 48 councils and more than 1,000 councilors. The size of the losses, which were worse than expected, infuriated many in the party, with some blaming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Ms. Patel, who served as Mr. Johnson’s home secretary while he was prime, was a personal friend and ally. She will speak at the Conservative Democratic Organisation convention in Bournemouth, where prominent allies of Mr. Johnson including Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg will also be present.
Ms. Patel is also anticipated to place the responsibility for Mr. Johnson’s downfall on the MPs, claiming that “they took down a vote-winning political giant” in the address.
Voters are experiencing “anger, frustration, and disappointment,” she will say. She will also criticize recent budgets for straying from what she terms Conservative beliefs and having “more state control, more spending, and more taxes.” She will caution that the party runs the risk of losing more votes if it does not make changes. In response to Ms. Patel’s remarks, the Liberal Democrats claimed that the Tories had “decided to rekindle their infighting” and that the party was characterized by “constant chaos”.