ANDREW PIERCE: Two former Tory chairmen are warning the party is making a mistake by pressing ahead with its summer gala at the exclusive Hurlingham Club.
With the cost-of-living crisis still the No 1 issue for most voters, Rishi Sunak walked into a trap when he tried to convince voters about the hardships he endured as a child.
The club occupies a 42-acre estate next to the River Thames, with tennis courts and croquet lawns. Tables at the event cost up to £12,000. One ex-Tory chief whispers: 'Ministers seen quaffing champagne next to fabulously rich donors. A gift for Labour.' 'I once discussed this with her at a media reception many years ago. She told me how difficult she found it trying to record one programme on her video recorder while watching another.'
Broadcaster Michael Crick says: 'I wonder what the hundreds of wrongly convicted postmasters think of all this fooling around by Ed Davey. Former Tory minister Edwina Currie cuts to the quick about Reform UK. 'Reform will get millions of votes. But no MPs. Or maybe just one,' she says. When the Liberal statesman William Gladstone visited Chester in 1892, he was hit in the eye by a lump of gingerbread thrown at him by a 'middle-aged and bony woman'. Perhaps that's what comes of hob-nobbing with voters.
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