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A former Cabinet minister said Uxbridge gave the party “some hope” but added: “For us to hold onto these other seats, the public will look to the Prime Minister and his Government and frankly, as the polls show, they aren’t inspiring at present nor are they convincing the public to stay with us.”
This led right-wing Tory figures to call for Mr Sunak to rein in green policies that they consider unpopular. Lord Frost, the former Brexit negotiator, wrote on Twitter: “The lesson is surely that green policies are very unpopular when there’s a direct cost to people. Tory chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, Craig Mackinlay, called for the ban on new petrol and diesel cars to be put back by five years. “We need to get the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars overturned at least until 2035, which is where most of the developed world is going. It is pure madness to saddle ourselves with this deadline,” he toldthe Tories could still turn things around by bringing out the party’s natural voters who stayed at home.
“It may have been different if we had some people on a plane to Rwanda, or if inflation had fallen a little bit sooner, the inflation figures were surprisingly bad when people were casting postal votes, but they were surprisingly good this week.
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