TORIES are increasingly adopting far-right rhetoric to win electoral support, campaigners at the Labour conference in Liverpool warned today.

Hope Not Hate director of research Dr Joe Mulhall told a packed fringe room that while there were often policies and individuals within the Conservative Party that have been on the right, the party itself is structurally shifting.

“The party now appears to be willing to increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric, believing it [to be] politically advantageous to themselves,” he said.