Grassroots Conservatives have shared their anger after Rishi Sunak became party leader and will be Prime Minister without a vote from the membership 🗨️ 'We rejected Rishi weeks ago'
: “I was very happy that it’s just not going to go on for another four days to go to the membership.
“If it had gone to the membership, given the support that Rishi clearly has, the only real outcome for me would have been rubber-stamping what the parliamentary party had already done. Eddie Reeves, leader of the Conservatives on Oxfordshire County Council, who backed Mr Sunak in both recent leadership elections, said: “I would say to all Conservative members that we need to get behind Rishi and get the country moving forward.
Amid calls for a general election, he said the “protracted” period of campaigning would be “unhelpful” with the country facing serious economic woes.