Prime minister campaigns in Buckinghamshire as his military service plan is criticised and MP defects to Reform
Rishi Sunak struggled to keep control of his fractured party on a chaotic fifth day of the Tory election campaign, as one MP defected to Reform and a minister criticised the prime minister’s pledge to bring back national service.as he sought to get back on the front foot after a bruising start to the snap election, with Tory insiders increasingly worried about his strategy and performance.
The prime minister was then hit with the defection of Lucy Allan, the Conservative MP for Telford, who said she would support the local candidate for Reform., but she hit back saying she had quit first and that the Conservatives had no chance in her seat, according to the Shropshire Star., the Conservative peer and former minister who resigned over his unhappiness with Sunak’s lack of commitment to the environment, accused him of having “damaged the party almost beyond repair”.
Jonathan Ashworth, a Labour shadow cabinet minister, said the policy was “continuing to unravel” and that the Tories could not just “shrug their shoulders” about the detail of what young people would be asked to do. “That will not do. Rishi Sunak cannot announce the flagship policy of his general election manifesto but then refuse to answer the most basic questions about how it will work, and what it will cost,” he said.
Some Conservative MPs, however, told the Guardian they were worried the focus on potential Reform voters was going to sacrifice a lot of home counties seats to the Lib Dems, including ones such as Surrey Heath, where Michael Gove
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