The former home secretary is one of the keynote speakers at the launch of a new grassroots movement - the Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO).
Priti Patel will accuse Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of presiding over the"managed decline" of the Conservative Party in a speech today.
It comes after the Tories lost more than 1,000 councillors at last Thursday's local elections following a chaotic year that has seen them go through three different prime ministers. By contrast, the Labour Party is now on track to being the largest party in Westminster at the 2024 general election - butMs Patel, also a Johnson loyalist, will tell CDO members on Saturday that Mr Sunak needs to offer more"hope and optimism" for Conservatism or risk being responsible for the"managed decline" of the party and defeat at next year's general election.
Earlier this year, it campaigned for constituency associations to be able to choose their own parliamentary candidate and to be able to deselect their MP.Is this a new dawn for Labour?
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