Former Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles urges his party to 'get its act together' to regain credibility as a 'decent opposition.' He emphasises, 'No one's going to want to listen to the Conservatives for a year… 18 months.'
Rishi Sunak moved to appoint an 'interim' shadow Cabinet tonight after the Tories' disastrous election meltdown.
Jeremy Hunt and James Cleverly are staying in their roles as shadow chancellor and home secretary respectively. Advertisement The Tory civil war is ramping up today as the Right blames moderates for putting 'Suicide Sunak' in charge of the party. Right-wingers fear that they fared worse in the wipeout, and moderates will try to push the party to the centre instead of trying to woo back voters who defected to Reform.
Ex-minister George Freeman told the BBC's Westminster Hour that the contest should last for six months.'We have an honest six months real appraisal of all the different voter groups we lost and why – not 'what did Boris do wrong?' or 'what did Liz Truss do wrong?' – but 'what are the voter groups we lost?'
Tory MP Danny Kruger told the BBC that he 'honoured' Mr Farage's role on Brexit, but the party should not be seeking an alliance with Reform.
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