Liz Truss’s short-lived chancellor is the 54th Tory MP to say they are standing down at the next election
The PopCon gathering, a new grouping of Conservative MPs and supporters, is taking place in London. Nigel Farage is also there, and perhaps unsurprisingly, is speaking to all and sundry of the media in attendance – I’ve already seen clips of him speaking to LBC and GBNews on social media. He also had some words for PA. He told them:
I’m motivated and interested by ideas. That’s why I was in Ukip and not the Conservative party. I suspect I would agree with a lot of what is said on the platform this morning, but none of it is going to be Conservative manifesto policy.
And that’s really the point here. Whilst there were some big names like Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg – I saw Priti Patel coming into the audience earlier – they are a very small minority within the parliamentary Conservative party.
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