We need to build long-term trust to hold seats like this one. We can win again – but we must deliver.
In Loughborough, we could see how Labour had lost its “core vote”. They may be unwilling to return to the fold.
I wonder if this election will go down in history as the one where, at long last, such attitudes towards Conservatives were dispelled?
There will be a mass of new Conservative MPs who have no or little presence on the ground to support them.
For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.
Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?
For now, enjoy your Christmas break. You have earned it and should be proud of what we have achieved.
Bad news for Hugh Grant and Stormzy. But Lord Sugar and Annunziata Rees-Mogg were able to rejoice.
Men chose the Conservatives over Labour by a 19-point margin (48 per cent to 29 per cent), while women did so by just six points.
“We did it – we pulled it off, didn’t we? We broke the gridlock, we ended the deadlock, we smashed the road block…the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980s.”
After having knocked on doors in six very different constituencies, across the South East, certain themes stand out. Social Care is one of them.
In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,
With so many disillusioned with politicians of all parties the role of self-defeating expectations comes into play.
If we really are becoming the Party of Blue Collar Conservatives, our Party must become the change that we want to see.