The Tories need to do more than “unite the right”
As long as centrists vote tactically against the Conservatives they will lose.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
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David Gauke is a former Conservative cabinet minister and was MP for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019.
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