Anneliese Dodds says she believes Elphicke is a good fit for Labour after criticism from across the political spectrum
Ben Houchen, who was the Conservative to win a metro mayor electoral contest last week (he was re-elected as Tees Valley mayor), has said that the route to Tory electoral recovery is “getting narrower by the day”.
In an interview with BBC Radio Tees, he said:
Things don’t look great for the Conservative Party at the moment … There is still a way through but that way through is getting narrower by the day.
There’s lots of people fighting with each other in the Conservative party, there are defections going on and ultimately the public do not vote for parties who are not united and are not presenting a united front and also aren’t talking to the public.
If they’re fighting with each other like rats in a sack instead of saying to the public ‘this is what we’re going to do for you’, that doesn’t win elections.
