Transport Secretary's insistence that Tories must 'stick to the plan' is likely to enrage MPshas insisted the general election is still winnable for the Conservatives as he dismissed calls for the party to change approach despite aamid growing calls from both moderate and right wing Tories for the Prime Minister to change tack going into the national polls.
The phrase “Crisis? What crisis?” was used to paraphrase former Labour prime minister’s Jim Callaghan’s response to the Winter of Discontent in the 1970s, when he denied there was “mounting chaos” in the country being torn apart by industrial action. Asked for her evidence of a need to shift further to the right, she said: “The evidence is that people are not voting for what he is doing because they don’t believe that we are serious about some of these issues.”
Mr Street said his brand of “moderative, inclusive, tolerant Conservatism, that gets on and delivered” nearly defeated Labour in one of its strongholds.