Damien

Also, it's nonsense. Every time a party loses an election a radical element claims it's because they were not right or left-wing enough. Everyone always thinks that if the party had embraced their politics they would have won.

It's results that matter, Tories didn't deliver. The economy was largely stagnant for well over a decade, the NHS waiting lists just kept going up and a general sense the state wasn't working.

Going to your right or left can work if it comes with a plan to deliver those results but that's not what the Tory right focused on. It was all about the 'vibe' of being right-wing which in the current Tory party is all about positioning yourself on culture war issues rather than economics.

If the Tories had gone to the right by radically changing our building regulations to make infrastructure spending cheaper and increase the supply of housing then that might have helped but few of the Tory right wants that because they're in hock to a base that is opposed to those things. So instead that whine about gender-neutral bathrooms.