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Culture and anarchy6/27/2023 ![]() We no longer have that inspirational leader and those visionary policies. ![]() “They can sense it and they can smell it. “We are drifting and people know that,” she said. ![]() Nadine Dorries, the former culture secretary and one of Johnson’s biggest backers, told the conference that the party had undergone an “astonishing political tumble” since Johnson secured an 80-strong majority in 2019 and was “going backwards”. “They vote Conservative because they expect us to keep taxes down.” “The public will not vote Conservative because they want high taxes, high spending and high borrowing,” she said. In comments reminiscent of the disastrous Liz Truss leadership, she also backed a tax-cutting agenda, despite the perilous state of public finances and stubbornly high inflation. She also criticised MPs for removing Johnson, saying they had overseen the “ousting of our most electorally successful prime minister since Margaret Thatcher”. ![]() In a clear swipe at those now in charge, she said some senior figures at Westminster had “done a better job at damaging our party” over the past year than Labour. Speaking at the inaugural conference of the pro-Boris Johnson Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) in Bournemouth on Saturday, former home secretary Priti Patel suggested the party’s high command under Sunak was responsible for the losses. ![]()
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