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A Tom Tugendhat supporter holds up a giant foam finger ahead of his appearance at the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, September 30, 2024
A YOUNG Tory accused the party of trying to set generations against each other with its controversial election campaign call to bring back national service.
Speaking in a conference panel about overcoming the party’s chronic voting deficit among younger people, Tyneside councillor Olly Scargill said: “In the general election some of what we campaigned upon was wedge issues.
“Things like national service were probably designed to play off younger people and older people, and when you’ve got a rising age of Conservative voter, it is incredibly unsustainable.”
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
