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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey

Conservatives face ‘obliteration’ as UK in worse state than 2010, Tory MP says

Danny Kruger in 2021.
Danny Kruger, pictured in 2021, made the comments during a private Tory member event last October. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

The Conservatives face “obliteration” at the next election after leaving the country in a worse state than they inherited it in 2010, a senior Tory MP has said, in a stark assessment of the party’s 13 years in government.

Danny Kruger, a leading backbencher and founder of the increasingly influential New Conservatives group, said the Conservatives risked being ejected from power this year having left the country “sadder, less united and less conservative” than they found it.

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