Greg Hands and fellow party apologists spin themselves in circles in search of positive twist on historic defeats
Greg Hands, the Conservative chair, was sure Labour had most reason to be unhappy after overturning two Tory majorities in excess of 20,000.Greg Hands, the Conservative chair, was sure Labour had most reason to be unhappy after overturning two Tory majorities in excess of 20,000.t’s not a lot of fun being chair of the Tory party these days. Just one damned thing after another. Trying to keep people’s spirits up as the party lurches from one disaster after another.
Rishi Sunak was away. Of course he was. Not a man to be seen near the scene of his crime. The prime minister had chosen the two days around the byelection to make his essential mission to the Middle East. Because what the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Saudis – don’t mention the murdered journalist – and the Egyptians had really been waiting for was advice from Rishi. Thank God you’ve turned up, Rish! Our saviour.
But Greg was adamant. Sure, he was a little bit disappointed. But it was Labour who had most reason to be unhappy. It was far better to have voters who really, really disliked everything about your party and would never dream of voting for you at the moment than to have supporters who were a bit apathetic and were grudging about casting their votes for you. He would have hated to have had those people voting Tory.
Weirdly, no one was that excited by his promise to make things slightly less unaffordable or to increase growth by 0.2%. Nor did they want longer hospital waiting lists and schools that were falling down. Most bizarrely of all, they had rejected the excitement of cancelling a major rail infrastructure project, letting prisoners out because there was no room in the jails and repealing laws that didn’t exist about seven bins.
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