Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

The Tories need to remember how to fight Labour

As you’d expect on the eve of Tory conference, everyone in the party is offering plenty of advice for Theresa May. Some are tugging the Prime Minister leftwards, while others are fretting that the Conservatives risk abandoning their values. There’s Jacob Rees-Mogg arguing that the Tories need to support the institution of the family, Sam Gyimah worrying that the party has ‘lost our way’ and is both ‘talking business down’ and ‘ignoring the concerns of voters’, Boris Johnson complaining about, well, quite a lot, and Liz Truss saying Labour’s latest PPB ‘does capture the heart of where we need to be as a party’. And it’s not even the real eve of party conference. We’ve got tomorrow and Sunday’s papers to go yet.The debate isn’t just about what Theresa May is doing, though. It’s as much about where the next leader of the party takes things as it is about what May decides to do with however little or much time she has left.

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