Yahoo News North Tyneside Tory leader urges national party to move to the centre ground amid election results
The leader of the North Tyneside Conservatives urged his party to shift politically to the centre ground, amid the party’s worst electoral defeat in history.
The Conservatives came second in Tyenmouth early this morning, amassing 9,036 votes, fighting off Reform to third place, somewhat bucking a trend nationwide. However, the leader of the local Tory Federation has called for his party leadership to consider the results nationwide if the party is to regain political viability.
The election saw the Tory Party, often dubbed the most successful political party in the Western world, lose 250 seats, including 12 former cabinet ministers. Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has now been invited by His Majesty King Charles III to form a government as Prime Minister after taking his party to victory with 412 newly elected MPs in the House of Commons.
Coun Liam Bones said: “The party needs to take some time to properly consider the results and I think certain people within the party need to be now focused on what the party can deliver rather than their ambitions, over the last few years that is what we have seen.
“That is what has cost us votes. Elections are won from the centre ground and that is where the party must move to win back the British people.”
The local conservatives did manage to stir up some controversy at the Tynemouth count last night, as news that their parliamentary candidate, coun Lewis Bartoli, would not attend due to a family holiday, began to spread.
The news sparked fury from political rivals, with Labour councillors dubbing coun Bartoli’s absence a “disgrace” and “truly incredible”. Coun Bones defended his candidate, saying attempts had been made to move or change the holiday but to no avail.
