Tory leadership candidate James Cleverley has claimed that people under 50 don’t vote for the Tories because they are seen as the ‘grumpy’ party.
He is perhaps underselling the Party. Theresa May described the Tories as the nasty party. In another age of political insults altogether Nye Bevan described them as lower than vermin.
Following protests at the 2021 Tory Conference in Manchester the High Court ruled in November 2023 that it was entirely lawful to describe Iain Duncan Smith as ‘Tory scum’. For someone keen on market economics its puzzling why he hasn’t produced a T-Shirt
More in Common polling in July and August found that increasing numbers found the Tories ‘weird’ an echo of the term US Democrat VP candidate Tim Walz has used to describe JD Vance
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