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Memo to Tories looking at Farage and yearning to ‘unite the right’: that sounds like a plan to kill off our party | Justine Greening

Reform UK would benefit and the Conservatives hurtle into oblivion. Only a more centrist party can pull us back from the brinkJustine Greening is a former Conservative minister and was MP for Putney from 2005 to 2019If senior Conservatives thought things couldn’t get any worse for the party after its historic defeat in last year’s general election then the past 12 months has proved them wrong. Latest Ipsos polling has the Tory party’s national vote share on just 15%. YouGov polling has the party on 18%. The last time the Conservative party polled 30% or more was in September 2022.A party that gave people a choice at the ballot box has become a husk. It is, as a former MP colleague said to me recently, akin to an empty warehouse – the building is still there but the goods inside have all but disappeared. Continue reading...

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