There will be no proposals to change the right of members to select their Parliamentary candidates, and the suggestion that anyone would seek to remove Associations from our organisation is clear fantasy.
Party members are united in their expectation that every Conservative MP must back the boundary reform proposals when they come to Parliament.
The Review’s proposals will allow the Party to adapt to a changed political landscape.
We need a centrally-administered system of membership – like other professional, UK-wide organisations – if we are to be a modern organised entity.
We need to remind ourselves that it took us 13 years to recover from the last time we allowed Europe to determine how the electorate saw our Party.