"The Conservative party is over. Over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left."
"We on the right of politics face a choice. To embrace the change that is happening or to go down to a deserved demise. To follow the flame of conservatism as it passes to a new torch or to stand still and get darker and colder and more pointless. To be conservative is not to worship the ashes of defunct institutions. It is to preserve the fire that gives our country its life. The new custodian of that fire, the best hope we have, maybe our last hope, and I fervently hope the next prime minister, is Nigel Farage."
Danny Kruger, MP for East Wiltshire and former political secretary to Boris Johnson, defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK and declared the Conservative party over as a national force and principal opposition to the left. Kruger accused the Tories of clinging to defunct institutions and operating under a sham unity since last year’s general election defeat, leaving the party in stasis. He urged the right to embrace change, follow conservatism as it passes to a new torch, and named Nigel Farage as the new custodian and potential next prime minister. Kruger was appointed Reform UK's head of preparing for government, promised fully costed plans, rejected claims that his Eton background prevented understanding working-class concerns, and distanced himself from earlier Commons remarks about spending.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]