THE Tory Party has been “very badly wounded” and are making an “incredible mess” of Government, Ann Widdecombe has said.
Asked about the state of the Tories in the wake of Durham Police clearing Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer she told GB News “I think it’s very badly wounded.
“It’s got its own internal chaos. These are totally self-inflicted wounds. The Prime Minister has been chaotic and never got a grip on the chaos.”
Ms Widdecombe was also excoriating about the current state of the Conservatives: “The party has been hysterical, and never got a grip on that hysteria,” she said.
“They are making an incredible mess of it despite having a huge mandate from the public, an incredible mess of it.”
Earlier, political commentator and former Lib Dem candidate Chris Bowers said the opposition parties will most fear Ben Wallace and Tom Tugendhat as new leader.
“I think that those are the two who could actually end up giving the Conservatives a veneer of respectability that the Labour and the Lib Dems and other opposition parties would find it harder to oppose,” he said.
“Whether that means that Wallace and Tugendhat will do well, I don’t know. But you know, at the end of the day, the electorate in this is initially the Conservative MPs, the parliamentary party, and then the Conservative membership.
“Will they look at who will most trouble Labour and the Lib Dems? I don’t know, but I suspect those are the two who might.”
Mr Bowers said Sir Keir Starmer has scored well against Johnson and that the Tories should avoid voting for another flamboyant figure.
“The more flamboyant, the more right-wing the figure that the Conservatives choose to be the new leader, I think the more it will suit Labour and the Lib Dems…
“If Keir Starmer is thought of as a person that many people will be happy to have as Prime Minister, then a lot of people will be willing to vote Lib Dem, perhaps to protest against the Conservatives perhaps to effect a change of government or even to force a hung parliament.”
