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Tories alarmed by threat from the right as Reform UK focuses on pro-Brexit seats (www.theguardian.com)

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Conservative MPs are warning that their party risks being wiped out in the red wall by an emerging threat on its right flank, amid alarm after two disastrous byelection losses.

The right of the party is seizing on the dire results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth – two supposedly safe Tory seats – to demand a harder line on immigration and tax cuts designed to nullify the threat posed by Reform UK, the successor to the Brexit party.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Conservative MPs are warning that their party risks being wiped out in the red wall by an emerging threat on its right flank, amid alarm after two disastrous byelection losses.

However, Tory MPs on the right who want more radical conservative policies point out that Reform’s level of support in both constituencies was greater than the Labour majority.

It comes as Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, told the Observer he wanted to help “smash the Tory party”.

One former Tory minister said: “It shows that the failure to deliver on migration means they [Reform UK] alone could hand Labour the red wall.

While a small number of Tory MPs oppose Sunak as leader, Hunt, a senior figure on the liberal wing of the party, has become the prime target for internal critics.

However, the mainstream of the party has also been bombarding Tory whips with messages stating they are doomed if the Conservatives are seen as a right-wing pressure group.

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