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Andy Street has broken his silence on the future of the Tory party. (Image: Andy Street) Losing hurts a lot (sadly I know), and right now across the Conservative Party there is a lot of hurting going on. From former MPs and their staff, to local associations and their volunteers, a general election defeat like this leaves many out of work - and even more with a bad taste in their mouth.

The normal emotional reaction in a situation like this is to try and bounce back rapidly. You think you know what went wrong, so you try to fix it as quickly as humanly possible. The Conservative Party lost a lot of votes to Reform, therefore the instinctive conclusion might be that we should have a swift leadership election to appoint a candidate from the right - and potentially even look at how we better integrate with Nigel Farage and Reform.



But life isn’t that simple, and certainly in this case I believe that a knee-jerk reaction would be a grave error that leaves the Tory party out of power for over a decade. If you’re a Conservative activist or MP, chances are you’ve spent the best part of the last six weeks knocking on doors of people who were Conservative/Reform waverers under Rishi Sunak ’s core vote strategy. Against this backdrop, of course many are going to have the warped view that Reform are an existential threat to the Conservative Party.

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