Canadian Tory leader defeated in poll. Jenrick urged UK Tories to follow his example
The Canadian Tory leader Pierre Poilievre has lost the election for PM to Liberal leader Mark Carney, despite the fact that the Tory leader had been 20% ahead in the polls before Trump became US President again in January
One person who backed Poilievre was Tory leader in exile Robert Jenrick who write in the Telegraph (6th October 2024). There is something to be said for King Midas in Reverse strategies..
None of this has escaped the attention of other right-of-centre politicians around the world. Robert Jenrick, the front-runner to become the next leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, made a special trip to Canada earlier this year to meet Poilievre and some of his staff.
“Rob definitely sees Pierre as showing the way in how to do popular conservatism in opposition,” says a member of Jenrick’s campaign team. “He’s picked a handful of policy areas in which Trudeau has made salient choices and explained in a fresh, modern but authentically right-wing way how those choices have made ordinary Canadians worse off.” At the Conservative party conference in Birmingham over the weekend, Jenrick said he wanted to make the Tories the party of home ownership again, pointing to Poilievre’s record in this area.
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