Tim Bell

How the Boris bounce can help the Tories

Tim Bell has written to all Tory MPs urging them to back Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership contest. Here is the full text of the letter:

The most important vote in your political career

I am honoured to have been a member of the Conservative Party for forty years and am proud of my voting record, I have never voted against my party.  To hear Conservative Ministers and MPs threaten to vote down a Queen’s speech and usher in a Corbyn/McDonell government shocked me to my core.

The EU elections show the frightening level of discontent amongst the public regarding the failure of a Conservative government to deliver what they voted for and what we promised to do.

The rise of the Brexit Party could usher in a rabid socialist Government, the likes of which we have never experienced, which would do untold damage to the social fabric of our nation.

Jeremy Hunt thinks outside the box and his vision for the country on an international stage is explicit.  Michael Gove has proved himself to be innovative in both Education and Environment. Dominic Raab’s legal mind is an asset to negotiations with the EU and his fortitude reminds me of a certain woman I used to know.  What a wealth of talent. 

However, you will forgive me for thinking in terms of a General Election; it is my strong view that the only person who can halt an impending disaster for our country is Boris Johnson. 

The greatest threat to our economy is not Brexit. It is a Corbyn/McDonell government that will waste money on nationalisation that is better spent on services and which, through its minimum wage fiasco, will see unemployment rise, particularly amongst the young. The wealth flight that has already begun will gather force as we move into an inevitable ‘brain drain’.  

If you do not know this Labour party is more economically damaging to our country than Brexit, I suggest you spend some time looking at what Margaret Thatcher inherited and at the hard work we had to do to restore our country’s fortunes.  

Over 40 years ago I persuaded the nation to overlook their gender reservations and listen to what a woman had to say.

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