Richard Fuller’s pre-conference remarks echo others who worry candidates have edged right to combat Reform
The new Conservative leader must make sure the party focuses on its traditional base rather than just chasing voters who defected to the likes of Reform, its chair has said before the Tories’ first conference since their crushing election defeat.
There has, in contrast, been little discussion about how the Tories can renew their appeal to more moderate voters, particularly those who deserted them for the Liberal Democrats, who took about 60 seats from the “My message to the new leaders is, you can’t just do that. We have to look at those areas which have traditionally been returning Conservative MPs, and make sure that we broaden the Conservative base in those constituencies.”
While a number of them “looked for anyone to register their protest”, whether the Lib Dems, Labour or Reform, a lot simply stayed at home and didn’t vote, he argued. “Being leader of a party is not a cakewalk. Politics is really tough. Candidates should expect to have to do the hard yards if they want to be leader of the party and then run a general election campaign, and this is a good trial for that.”
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