Why are the Tories in crisis?

Schedule

Thu Sep 29 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Location

Swarthmore Education Centre | Leeds, EN

With the massive rise in the cost of living it's easy to feel that the Tories are having it all their own way. But Truss is the third British prime minister in succession to take office on the basis, not of a general election, but of a leadership vote within the Conservative Party. Among the Tory membership—ageing, disproportionately white and male, concentrated in wealthy areas of the south of England, and espousing views far more reactionary than those of the general population—she won 81,326 votes from an electorate of 172,437.2 Her victory was by the smallest margin since the current Tory leadership election system was introduced in 2001.
Her base in parliament is also far from secure. In the final round of voting among Conservative MPs, to select the two candidates to go out to the ballot of party members, just 113 out of 358 cast their vote for Truss. True, she inherits Boris Johnson’s 80-seat majority in the House of Commons; however, her party is riven with factionalism, further complicated by the accumulation of former ministers, including leadership election contender, Rishi Sunak, on the back benches. She will, as a result, have to “govern like it’s a hung parliament,” as one Tory strategist put it.
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Swarthmore Education Centre, 2 - 7 Woodhouse Square,, Leeds, United Kingdom

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