Conservative MP, Paul Scully, reflects on Conservative defeat and shares their hopes to regain support warning tax cuts alone won’t be enough to win around voters.
TORY MP Paul Scully has revealed how he thinks the party can rebuild following their double by-election disaster – but warned tax cuts alone aren’t enough.
Speaking to GBNews, Mr Scully said: “It is one of those I think where a lot of people stayed at home. There are also a lot of people that use the fact that it’s not going to change the Government of the country in a by-election in midterm elections and can register their protest that we’re not doing enough. It’s clear at the moment that Reform voters are way more motivated to come out and vote than the Conservatives. And it’s something I found when I’ve been out canvassing in my own area and in other areas, that at the moment, Conservative voters are saying please get your act in order. They are saying give us something to get behind and are asking for some Conservative values and a vision to get behind, as well to stop the infighting within the party. That’s something that we’ve really got to tackle, ASAP if we can, if we’re going to have reasonable prospects at the next general election, because that’s what feeds Reform and other parties.
Outlining why he thinks the Tories need to look beyond simply cutting taxes he added: “I think tax cuts is a single measure in the budget that won’t necessarily bed in unless you’ve got a vision around it. Any tax cuts that do get put in place; I think they’ve got to affect a wide amount of people. That fiscal drag, tackling tax thresholds, these kinds of things are affecting hundreds of thousands of people, nurses and public sector worrkers that wouldn’t necessarily be expected to be suddenly paying a high rate.
That’s what we’ve got to look at now. But we’ve also got to set out a vision on housing. What are we going to do for young people? What are we going to do about migration in a sensible way that’s achievable. Politics is the art of the possible.”
