Tory leadership contender Esther McVey's Blue Collar Conservatism group aims to reconnect the party with working class voters.
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The Tory leadership campaign isn’t meant to start until June, but you wouldn’t know that from the way top Conservatives are behaving today.
In the right-hand corner, Esther McVey. The former Work and Pensions Secretary took to the podium earlier to launch her new group, Blue Collar Conservatism.
On the Blue Collar Conservatism website, she says the new group will aim to target “voters and communities most neglected by Labour”.
The Conservative Party “must do more if we are to genuinely speak for the people who need us most”, she adds.
“The concerns of people about the number of police on their streets, the quality of their children’s schools and the difficulties in getting on the housing ladder are palpable and must be addressed if we are to genuinely create a country which works for everyone”.
After her event, she’s off on a pub crawl. No, really.
Ms McVey, who quit the cabinet in November in protest at Theresa May’s Brexit deal, told the Mail on Sunday she’s embarking on a “pub tour” campaign to meet ordinary, blue-collar voters.
One Nation, two parties?
Tonight, on the other side of the Palace of Westminster, the centre-right One Nation Caucus is meeting to publish their list of demands for whoever wants to replace Mrs May.
Those demands include a commitment not to go into coalition with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.
Its leaders insist it’s not a Stop Boris group, but then it’s not not either…
The event will feature Rory Stewart, the newly-minted International Development secretary, who has already said he’s going for the top job.
Amber Rudd, the Work and Pensions Secretary, spearheads the group. She says she isn’t standing… yet.
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The Tory leadership campaign isn’t meant to start until June, but you wouldn’t know that from the way top Conservatives are behaving today.
In the right-hand corner, Esther McVey. The former Work and Pensions Secretary took to the podium earlier to launch her new group, Blue Collar Conservatism.
On the Blue Collar Conservatism website, she says the new group will aim to target “voters and communities most neglected by Labour”.
The Conservative Party “must do more if we are to genuinely speak for the people who need us most”, she adds.
“The concerns of people about the number of police on their streets, the quality of their children’s schools and the difficulties in getting on the housing ladder are palpable and must be addressed if we are to genuinely create a country which works for everyone”.
After her event, she’s off on a pub crawl. No, really.
Ms McVey, who quit the cabinet in November in protest at Theresa May’s Brexit deal, told the Mail on Sunday she’s embarking on a “pub tour” campaign to meet ordinary, blue-collar voters.
One Nation, two parties?
Tonight, on the other side of the Palace of Westminster, the centre-right One Nation Caucus is meeting to publish their list of demands for whoever wants to replace Mrs May.
Those demands include a commitment not to go into coalition with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.
Its leaders insist it’s not a Stop Boris group, but then it’s not not either…
The event will feature Rory Stewart, the newly-minted International Development secretary, who has already said he’s going for the top job.
Amber Rudd, the Work and Pensions Secretary, spearheads the group. She says she isn’t standing… yet.
