Kemi Launches Post-Mortem into Local Elections Wipeout – Guido Fawkes

Kemi Launches Post-Mortem into Local Elections Wipeout

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Kemi Badenoch has written in ConHome today announcing a review into the local elections results ten days ago, which saw the Tories lose 674 seats. After saying she is “deeply sorry to all the excellent Conservative councillors” she said the review will examine:

“The activities undertaken by the Party at both local and national level, our performance in the various geographical areas of the country, the involvement of the different stakeholders that comprise the Conservative Party family, such as the Professional, Voluntary and Parliamentary elements, and the ‘Candidate Journey’ – from recruitment and selection to declaration of results.”

Co-chairman Nigel Huddleston, shadow communities secretary Kevin Hollinrake and shadow crime minister Matt Vickers will lead the review, set to be done by the end of June. Kemi goes on to promise that the Tories will “rise again”:

“But we’ve been here before, and we’ve always come back stronger. I still remember the bad set of local elections in May 2019, swiftly followed by the European elections later that month where we polled just under 9 per cent. It felt like our time in government was over. Yet Boris pulled out a historic majority that same year.”