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Sir Geoffrey Cox has warned that the Conservative Party will be “destroyed” as a credible opposition party in the House of Commons if Labor repeats its current leadership in the general election and wins a large majority.
The former solicitor general argued that a landslide election victory for Keir Starmer’s Labor would be “bad for democracy”.
He also said the Conservatives needed to show voters “why we should be elected again”.
A YouGov poll released on Thursday put the Conservative Party at 19 per cent of the vote, well behind Labour’s standing at 44 per cent.
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Reform UK, the new-look Brexit Party, recorded its highest ever poll score with 15 per cent of the vote – placing it just four points behind Rishi Sunak’s party,
It came as the prime minister tried to unite his struggling party ahead of what could be a brutal series of local elections.
Addressing the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee on Wednesday night, the prime minister called on his party to unite following weeks of media coverage of alleged plots against him by MPs.
The Conservative Party is expected to launch its campaign for the local elections on 2 May in Derbyshire today. While defending over 900 seats and 18 councils, they are widely expected to lose a significant number of both.
Speaking about the party’s wider electoral prospects, former attorney general Sir Geoffrey said GB News: “The Conservative Party represents a cluster of important values, ideals and principles and if the country is without it, it is a very dangerous thing for democracy.
“At the moment, a majority of 80 seats is big but the proposal at the moment, the suggestion that Labor could win a majority of 200 seats effectively destroys any credible opposition.
“That is bad for democracy, but on our part, we need to show why we should be elected again, why our party stands for really important values ​​and principles.”
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