A TORY MP has said that the Conservatives face “obliteration” at the next General Election.
Danny Kruger, a leading member of the hard-right New Conservatives, said that this was due to the party leaving the UK in a worst state than they inherited it in 2010.
The Guardian also reported he said the Tories had made the UK “sadder, less united and less conservative”.
Speaking an event for Tory members last October, Kruger reportedly said: “The narrative that the public has now firmly adopted – that over 13 years things have got worse – is one we just have to acknowledge and admit.
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“Some things have been done right and well. The free school movement that Michael Gove oversaw, and universal credit – and Brexit, even though it was in the teeth of the Tory party hierarchy itself, and mismanaged – nevertheless Brexit will be the great standing achievement of our time in office.
“These things are significant, but, overall I’m afraid, if we leave office next year, we would have left the country sadder, less united and less conservative than when we found it.”
The comments were passed to The Guardian, and when the newspaper approached Kruger, he responded that he was making the “case for realism and for honesty with the public”.
He added: “For decades, across the western world, centre-right parties have controlled the institutes of the state – yet nevertheless have presided over a drift away from their stated values and the interests of their voters.
“Conservatives worldwide have presided over models of mass migration, political correctness and economic short-termism.
"The British government is making some of the right moves to correct this. But the reaction under way in Europe at the moment is a warning to my party.”
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