Tom Tugendhat visits Wales in bid to canvass Tory member votes
Tom Tugendhat has pledged to champion Conservative voices across the country, while taking aim at Labour’s record during a visit to Wales.
The Conservative leadership hopeful visited Anglesey in north Wales, as he canvasses for votes with Tory members across the UK.
Ynys Mon, the parliamentary constituency for the island, was lost by the Conservatives at the General Election to Plaid Cymru’s Llinos Medi, after a close fought three-way race between the Welsh nationalist party, the Tories and Labour.
Mr Tugendhat is said to have pledged to “work tirelessly” to protect the Union during a speech he made in his bid to succeed Rishi Sunak.
Public service failures
He is also said to have criticised the Labour Welsh Government for “public service failures in devolved areas”.
Mr Tugendhat reflected on the Conservative Party’s own lack of unity in recent years as he spoke, telling Tory members: “Unfortunately, in recent years, instead of exposing Labour’s failures in Wales, we in Westminster were distracted by internal conflicts, allowing Welsh Labour to scapegoat us and lose the trust of the Welsh people.
“This is what I will put an end to. As leader of the Conservative Party, I will always fight to protect the Union. If the union fails, we all fail.
“I will fight for you in Westminster, but also make sure there is a credible, conservative alternative here in Wales, ready to take the fight to Labour in 2026 and deliver on the priorities of the Welsh people.”
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All 15 of them?
“I will always fight to protect the Union. If the union fails, we all fail.”
The union has demonstrably failed. Why the heck do you want to protect this dysfunctional, debased, undemocratic, failed State Tom? Strange perspective from strange people. I want democracy for my nation and these bizzare anachronistic throwbacks have the front to say Cymru can’t. Bog off!
Who could blame Tom for wanting to visit the new improved Tory MP free Ynys Mon a Cymru.? It’s’ electorate knows how to make a better place and he wants to see what that looks like. He also speaks of a ‘credible Conservative alternative in Wales’. They’d have to be immeasurably alternative to what is here and his vision of this could not possibly include retaining their current group leader. Writing on the wall?
The Milky Bar Kid comes to Ynys Mon…
I hope he enjoy’s the ‘Fat Shanks Effect’ in all its iniquity high season brings to…?
Mam Cymru remains firstnameless…
This omission should be the Holy Grail of Antiquarians…
How did the Tory party do in the UK these last 14 years. Which party put that proven liar and cheat, Johnson, then that vacuous Lettuce Truss in power and then Sunak who couldn’t keep promises either and only got there because Truss tanked the UK so quick they needed a quick bung in the dam? The UK told the party what they thought of them. He is also prepared to leave the ECHR. That is he is happy to remove your rights. Be thankful we do not have a Tory led Senedd in Wales (you know, the party led… Read more »
We certainly agree on the Tories, but ‘Labour is not brilliant’ doesn’t quite cut it: Wales is basket case by most metrics compared to England, and has been for years. Starmer’s Labour will almost certainly close that gap, but it’ll be by dragging England down to the same dire level as us.
Why are you comparing England and Wales?
England has 18 times the population and includes the UK capital city which also happens to be the richest region in Europe.
That “success” is the UK’s success not England’s success so why are you including it in England’s metrics to decide that “Wales is a basketcase compared to England”?
Are you deliberately gaslighting or have you just not thought it through?
Any performance comparisons within the UK must be made between the nations and nine English regions.
England vs Wales belongs on the pitch.
Until very recently there was a Tory government in Westminster and a Labour one in Wales. It’s perfectly logical to use that situation as a basis for comparison of how well each party governs. The stats are all there, but I sense you’re not an ‘evidence’ fella.
Except with a Labour government in Cardiff and a Conservative government in Westminster North East England became the poorest part of the UK and West Midlands ended up with the highest child poverty. But you’d prefer to hide those embarrassing-for-England stats by lumping them in with the wealthy home counties to create a so-so average for England that masks how bad it is in the north and how good it is in the south, just so Whitehall mandarins who live in the good bits don’t have to do any actual governance for the outer English regions because they can fob… Read more »
Except the stats say that North East England is the poorest part of the UK (source: ONS, gdp per capita) and West Midlands has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK (source: Action for Children). Yet this shocking plight of nearly ten million folk in England is hidden in plain sight by some questionable accounting that lets some believe Wales is bottom of these league tables.
Been keeping up since boris took over? No? Better go find out.
I have Jeff, yes. My assertion regarding Wales’s performance metrics still stands. Sorry and all.
Does not matter whichever mainstream political party you vote for they are merely WEF stooges….
Some of his colleagues should face lengthy sentences for inciting racial hatred. Or does “freeze speech” provide a perfect cover for conservatives to say what they like with total impunity? May their long winter of opposition be painful and humiliating.
So Tom Tugendhat has visited Waleson. Big deal. What a pernicious yawn fest. The Tories have never had any positive effect on Wales in their dirty history. Coincidentally , I heard him today on BBC Radio Wales dodging questions asked and making lame excuses for islamophobe Andrew RT Davies including how he was pro devolution after Davies’s ad-hoc poll about abolishing the Senedd Cymru. Whoever wins the Tory leadership can expect a decade of more in the political wilderness as Labour occupy the center ground are now the official new Tory party and the only political direction he & they… Read more »