26 Jun Tories will lose the election with or without Boris, says Ann Widdecombe
FORMER Tory minister Ann Widdecombe has said that the Conservative Party will lose the next General Election irrespective of who is leader.
In an interview with GB News, she said: “The two MPs that had given up the seats had behaved appallingly and that would have left a very bad feeling. The infighting is just dominating the press.
‘The Tories don’t look like a party that is marching to victory. They look like a party, which is just falling apart, arguing amongst itself.”
She added: “It doesn’t matter what Boris does, they’re not going to win the next election.
“I would say to any Tory who’s still going on about a confidence vote and changing the rules: just look at the timetable and ask yourself if you really want the party to be breaking out in arguments and fights and all the rest of it…”
Speaking during an interview with Nana Akua, Ms Widdecombe suggested that MPs have underestimated the damage done by infighting.
“We’ve got a lot of Tories who are still wet behind the ears,” she said.
“This is the first time they served in Parliament, two years were not normal because of Covid, they were hardly actually doing anything…
“They’ve got it into their hands that they need no disasters between now and winning the last election and fighting next.”
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay earlier said: “We’re not going to gloss over the result. It was a very bad result.
“It was the biggest swing that we’ve seen, even bigger than the one when Owen Paterson stood down.”
Mr Mackinlay said he thought the scale of the losses was down to the reasons why the MPs stood down.
He said: “When MPs leave under a cloud, I mean, in Wakefield a very serious cloud, the MP convicted of a sexual offence against a minor and is now doing time for it.
“That’s a very, very bad place to be starting an election campaign…”
He added: “But what is really bizarre is that in both of those seats, very much leave seats, that people have selected on poor turnouts parties that are completely contra to that very big constitutional democratic decision.”
