Conservative Party chair says Tories will enter next general election as 'underdogs'
'I rely on triple lock money to buy food every week - if it's cut I don't know how I'll cope'Conservative Party chair says Tories will enter next general election as ‘underdogs’
He added: “What I want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of people’s money, taxpayers’ money, everybody watching, billions and billions of pounds. Kicking off speeches on the main stage at the Tory conference on Sunday, party chair Greg Hands said: “This is likely to be a general election where the Conservatives enter as the underdogs.”, Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly are among the possible future Tory leaders who have been active at the party conference.
However, the security minister, Tom Tugendhat, and the International Development Minister, Andrew Mitchell, hit back at calls to leave the ECHR, with Mr Tugendhat citing a lack of solutions from those who wished to leave about how to “address the gaps that they create”, for example with Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement, which is dependent on the ECHR.
He added that the Government is “rolling out the largest prison expansion programme since the Victorian era. Thanks to this Prime Minister […] we have brought online over 5,000 more places.”Speaking on Tuesday morning, he said: “To deliver the long-term change the NHS needs we need a relentless focus on patient outcomes, and that means prioritising frontline resources.