Tories can safe election majority as voters not sure of Labour, says Mordaunt
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ory MP Penny Mordaunt has instructed a fringe viewers her get together can nonetheless “win the election” with a majority, with voters unconvinced of Labour.
Ms Mordaunt, who’s Leader of the House of Commons in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s cupboard, instructed Iain Dale’s All Talk viewers on Sunday that she’s going to “do everything I can” to safe a fifth Conservative time period on the subsequent normal election.
It comes as polls more and more level in direction of a Labour victory on the election, anticipated subsequent yr, after the get together secured its largest ever by-election win in July by overturning a Conservative majority in Selby and Ainsty by 20,000 votes.
But the Tories held on to former prime minister Boris Johnson’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat by 495 votes.
Addressing her get together’s probabilities within the upcoming election, Ms Mordaunt mentioned her get together needed to “give the country confidence” that the Tories can ship.
She mentioned: “I do think it is possible to win the election and win it with a majority that we can do something with.”
The Tory MP, who was a contender within the get together’s management race final yr, took purpose at Labour, led by Sir Keir Starmer.
I don’t suppose the deal is sealed with the Labour get together but for all types of causes, however partly as a result of individuals aren’t actually positive about Keir Starmer
She instructed the viewers: “I don’t think the deal is sealed with the Labour party yet for all sorts of reasons, but in part because people aren’t really sure about Keir Starmer. They don’t really know what he stands for.
“I think anything is possible. But what we have to do is, coming out of some very difficult years, we have got to give the country confidence that we’re on the right trajectory and that we can deliver for them.”
Asked by host Iain Dale if she would agree that her get together have thus far did not ship that confidence, she responded: “I don’t think that.”
Ms Mordaunt additionally mentioned her makes an attempt to win the management of the Tories final yr, the place she mentioned there have been “carrots and sticks to get her to withdraw” from the second race in opposition to Rishi Sunak.
She added: “But I chose not to because I felt that if we weren’t going to have a contest it had to be demonstrated that there was not the will amongst MPs.”
Asked if she would run for management of the get together once more, she mentioned: “It’s no secret that I would have liked to have been prime minister, that’s why I threw my hat in the ring. But genuinely, I’m not thinking about that.
“I really do think that if we do not win this the fifth term, millions of things that we have, and the country has been through, which have been quite painful, but in my view, the right thing for the trajectory of the country, they wouldn’t be maximised.
“And I’m going to do everything I can to support the PM and get us that fifth term.”