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The Tory Party Membership Won’t Tolerate Another Fake Conservative Leader, Says Harris-Quinney

Dec 21, 2021 | Broadcast Media, News | 0 comments

Bow Group chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has said that the Tory party membership will not tolerate another “fake conservative leader”.

“There are all sorts of indicators that Boris Johnson has lost the faith of the public and lost that moral authority,” Ben Harris-Quinney told GB News, referencing recent polling putting Labour in the lead, the Conservatives losing the safe seat of North Shropshire to the Liberal Democrats in a by-election, and the ongoing PartyGate scandal.

“But Labour aren’t getting in any time soon,” Harris-Quinney said, continuing: “At a maximum, we’re talking about 2024… and even then, to overturn an 80 seat majority is a very, very difficult thing to do. So I think we’re likely to be back into hung parliament territory or small Conservative majorities. Either way, we’re a long way off discussing the Labour Party coming into power.”

“The question therefore is there anyone who is going to challenge Boris Johnson from within the Conservative Party? You’ve got the Parliamentary party, but you’ve also got the membership base,” Harris-Quinney said, explaining that the membership are more to the right of the party than the Parliamentary party and would not tolerate another “fake conservative leader”.

Harris-Quinney said: “That card has been played time and time again of these people popping up, claiming to be conservatives, and only a few years later, we find out that they’re not. Everyone gets buyers’ remorse about voting for them.

“We [the Bow Group] warned about Boris Johnson, we warned about Theresa May in the same way, and I just don’t see the party saying, ‘Jeremy Hunt’s going to take us beyond the liberal metropolitan elite that we voted to get rid of in the Brexit referendum.'”

“I don’t think there will be a leadership challenge to Boris Johnson because there is no obvious candidate to take over from him. So whilst I agree he has completely lost moral authority, particularly to deal with the pressing issue of coronavirus, I think he’ll stay and limp on,” he said.

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