DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Why a Tory revival can't come too soon? By Daily Mail Comment Published: 01:13 GMT, 4 November 2024 | Updated: 01:53 GMT, 4 November 2024 e-mail 2 View comments The hurly-burly's done, the battle lost and won, and the Conservatives finally have a new leader. In Kemi Badenoch , they have chosen a relatively inexperienced candidate, but clearly one with great strength of character and will. She will need those qualities in abundance over the next four years to revive her bruised, battered and bewildered party, and to regain the trust of disillusioned voters.
Having squandered a historic landslide majority by indulging in a pantomime of infighting and division, the Tories were not just given a bloody nose on July 4, they were eviscerated. Their net loss of more than 250 seats was a record thumping and their parliamentary representation is down to a rump of just 121, the lowest in modern times. The party must now regroup under Mrs Badenoch, face up to its shortcomings with humility and contrition, and rediscover a sense of common purpose.
Kemi Badenoch is relatively inexperienced but clearly has great strength of character and will Just weeks after winning a massive majority, Labour is behind the Tories in the polls – a damning indictment of Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘changed’ party The road back to power will be long and it will be tough but there is a route map. Labour campaigned as moderates. In just four months, they have shown themselves to be avaricious.
