The Conservative Party is “heading for a defeat” at the general election and must improve the offer it is making to voters, Suella Braverman warned this morning.
The former home secretary said she hoped the Tories will “change course” and be bolder on key issues like tax and migration.
Asked about what the Tories could expect at the contest, Mrs Braverman told LBC: “I am very concerned. I am very concerned about what poll after poll demonstrates. It is my job, and I sought to do this as home secretary, to speak honestly, to speak the truth even if it may be uncomfortable.
“I owe that to the people who have sent me to Parliament and I owe that to you and so the honest truth is that we are heading for a defeat, to put it mildly, at the general election. I very much hope that we change course and that we improve the offer to the British people.
“Ultimately measures on tax cuts, measures on migration, measures on national security and social cohesion and extremism are insufficient by this Government.
“We need to go further, we need to demonstrate to the British people that we are on their side, that we are serious about stopping the boats, that we are actually serious about curbing unprecedented levels of illegal migration and unfortunately we haven’t managed to do that.”
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