Shadow home secretary calls for unity in opposition, after comments from Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch
Cleverly’s article comes at a sensitive moment for the party, as it prepares to embark on a leadership contest.Cleverly’s article comes at a sensitive moment for the party, as it prepares to embark on a leadership contest.James Cleverly has called for the Conservative party to unite in opposition, as the party heads into what is likely to be a bitter leadership campaign.
The party is about to embark on a leadership election, which is likely to take months, but is divided over everything from how long the contest should take to why the election was lost.And in a riposte to those who want the Tory party to move to the right, he added: “There is strength in unity, and the Conservative party has always been at its best when it embraces being a broad church. We lost voters to the left and the right, and we won’t win them all back if we narrow our offer.
The party has not yet set the rules for the leadership election and no one has formally declared themselves a candidate.attacking liberals in her own party, while Badenoch used a meeting of the shadow cabinet to launch a blistering attack on Braverman and the party leader, Rishi Sunak.conference in Westminster at which she called the Progress Pride flag a “monstrous thing” and criticised the “lunatic woke virus working its way through the British state”.
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