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Former work and pensions secretary announces candidacy, saying Tories have ‘lost the trust of the British people’ | Former work and pensions secretary announces candidacy, saying Tories have ‘lost the trust of the British people’ |
The former work and pensions secretary Mel Stride has announced his candidacy to replace Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader. | The former work and pensions secretary Mel Stride has announced his candidacy to replace Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader. |
The MP for Central Devon told BBC Breakfast: “I’m fully nominated. I was nominated yesterday morning and my candidacy has gone forward.” | The MP for Central Devon told BBC Breakfast: “I’m fully nominated. I was nominated yesterday morning and my candidacy has gone forward.” |
Stride said the Tory party had “substantially lost the trust of the British people” as well as its “reputation for competence”. | Stride said the Tory party had “substantially lost the trust of the British people” as well as its “reputation for competence”. |
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He told BBC Breakfast: “What we know from the general election is that we’re in a very, very difficult place as a party, and I worry about that because I care about my party and I care about my country. | |
“We have substantially lost the trust of the British people and we’ve lost our reputation for competence, and I believe that I’m in a very good position to address those issues going forward. In terms of trust, I think [the party] needs somebody who is going to be able to unite the party. | |
“People are not going to vote for a party that’s at each other’s throats all the time. I am respected, I think, right across the parliamentary party, I was chair of the Treasury select committee, the leader of the House of Commons, all of those things are roles about bringing people together.” | |
Stride said Conservatives needed to reorganise the party into a “fighting machine”, adding: “We’ve got elections coming up next year for county councils and so on, and I think I will be well placed to drive that kind of change as well.” |