Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake has said that he believes that the Conservative Party can rebound “quite quickly” from its defeat at the General Election.
Asked who the new leader of the party should be, the former Business Minister told GB News: “Somebody that the public believe we’re going to tackle the issues they care about… do bear in mind, it’s got less than 34 per cent of the vote. This is the least popular majority government in history.
“We can come back from that quite quickly, but we can only do that by picking the right leader, somebody with the right kind of determination and, critically, somebody that people trust to deliver on their priorities, which has got to be about controlling migration, lowering taxation, improve public services, but also tackle some of the cultural ideology that that runs through our society.”
He added: “We promised to control migration and we didn’t and sooner or later the public stop listening when you simply making promises and you don’t deliver.
“I think we were on the cusp of delivering on our solutions. The Rwanda plan itself was resisted 130 times by the liberal left in Parliament. That’s what stopped us from doing it.
“Those are the right kind of solutions, but ultimately people want us to see those solutions put into practice. I think that’s where we went wrong and that’s what we’ve got to deal with in the future.
“So our new leader, whoever it is, there’s got to be somebody people absolutely trust to deliver on the promises.”
Hollinrake said a leadership contest should take place in September: “I personally think the contest should start in the autumn, probably September time and pick a leader by the end of the year. I don’t think there’s any rush to do that.
“We need to decide the best two individuals to go forward to the membership. We’ve decided that in Parliament’s and then the membership then decide who of those two individuals have the right person to lead the party.
“I would rather we take our time, have a proper debate about the issues, what went wrong, how we’re going to fix those things before we find the leader by the end of the year, though.
“That leader can take us into the next four years, hold Labour to account for what they’re doing or not doing and then ultimately present the right alternative to the Labour Party in 2029.
“The fact that Labour have less than 34 per cent of the vote is a real opportunity for the Conservative Party…”
On who he would support as the new leader, he said: “We should listen to the individuals and how they’re going to set out and tackle these problems, migration, taxation, public services, all those things, and then make a decision in due course.”
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