Tory MP claims that Reform and Conservatives 'NEED to work together' to reclaim power -'Nigel is an inspiring leader'

Tory MP claims that Reform and Conservatives 'NEED to work together' to reclaim power -'Nigel is an inspiring leader'

Tory Minister claims that Reform and Conservatives 'NEED to work together'

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Gabrielle Wilde

By Gabrielle Wilde


Published: 05/07/2024

- 20:04

Labour won by a landslide in yesterday's General Election

Reform and the Conservatives "need to work together" to reclaim power at the next General Election, a Tory MP has claimed.

This comes after the Labour Party won by a landslide yesterday and Keir Starmer has become the next Prime Minister.


Nigel Farage was also elected as an MP alongside four other members of Reform UK.

Speaking to GB News Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell said: "I think the Conservative Party has lost its way in government for too long. We have been diverted into things that aren't Conservative, and people have been incredibly disappointed.

Andrew Rosindell

Andrew Rosindell claimed that Reform and Conservatives should be working together

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"The things that we should have done but didn't do. We didn't use the 80-seat majority that Boris won five years ago. We should have done radical things to sort the problems of this country out, but we turned up into government and finished up being more administrators than we are actually leading a political agenda.

"And that means that so many people, certainly in my constituency, were very disappointed. They felt that we let them down. We hadn't we haven't done what we said we would do what they expected us to do, and they voted for Reform.

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"So there is no love for Labour. 35 per cent of the vote for a government is very low.

"The truth is that Labour has a lot to prove in office, but we need to bring both sides of the right together.

"Conservative and Reform need to start coalescing to provide strong opposition to the new Labour government."

He added: "The reality is we're not talking about Nigel Farage here. Nigel is an inspiring leader and he's amazing things that he's achieved, but he's one person.

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister

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"What I'm concerned about is bringing all the people in this country together who have right-of-center views.

"If you have two conservative parties, one called Reform, one called Conservative, the winner will always be the Labour Party, and that is what we want to avoid next time.

"I want this to be a one-term Labour government. I don't want him to be in power for the next 15, or 20 years.

"So somehow we have to start being realistic about what we need to do as a party and go with the grain of what the British people want.

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK

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"My constituents, so many of them wouldn't vote for me, not because I was a bad MP or against me particularly, it was all about the way the government had failed to achieve the things that they expected it to achieve.

"And so they went Reform. We have to bring the voters who have right of center views together, and then we can defeat the Labour Party in five years time if we continue to be divided Keir Starmer or whoever replaces him, it might be Angela Rayner by then, who knows?

"Whoever is leader of the Labour Party will have a shoo-in. A divided right means the left will govern in perpetuity.

"So we need to bring everyone together and have a strong opposition to ensure that the Labour government, just elected, only gets one term of office."

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