{"id":120370,"date":"2023-10-20T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120370"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:59:01","slug":"tories-are-on-course-for-hiding-and-they-deserve-it-says-ann-widdecombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/tories-are-on-course-for-hiding-and-they-deserve-it-says-ann-widdecombe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tories are on course for hiding and they deserve it,\u2019 says Ann Widdecombe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rishi Sunak\u2019s Conservative Party is now on course for a \u201cmassive hiding\u201d in next year\u2019s general election, former Conservative Minister and staunch Brexiteer Ann Widdecombe has predicted – adding: \u201cThey deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Widdecombe, who served in the Government of former PM Sir John Major in the 1990s, and who more recently was a Brexit Party MEP, was responding to the Tories\u2019 double defeat in the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections yesterday.<\/p>\n

The result has prompted bookmakers to slash the odds of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer being the next occupant of Number 10 – and Ms Widdecombe, the former MP for Maidstone in Kent, did not disagree with their assessment.<\/p>\n

Now a member of Reform UK, the Brexit firebrand told Express.co.uk: \u201cI think that they’re going to get a really good hiding at the polls and I think that they deserve<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will have to be Starmer of victory because honestly, there are no Conservatives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo if you ask me if I feel, at all guilty about the fact that we may well end up helping to put Starmer my in my answer is no, because there are no Conservatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a pink party and we have a pale pink party.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a good result for the Tories but it was a very good result for Reform UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you actually look at both seats, we took more votes than was the margin between Conservatives and Labour so that is hugely significant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd it means the Conservatives should start to be afraid of us and should start to listen to us about things like lower taxation, and a proper Brexit and the end of woke.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t think they will because they’re too arrogant.\u201d<\/p>\n

With specific reference to Mr Sunak, she suggested he was veering dangerously close to lame duck territory, explaining: \u201cHe’s running out of time to do anything effectively now.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got one King\u2019s Speech left and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n