Can the Conservative Party ever win an election again?

Let's hope not for God's sake. Never again

I’ve always voted conservative but never will again. So many things they have done since 2015 are unforgivable,

I'd take 3/1 on them winning most seats in 2029. Always a plus to have a mental time frame longer than milk lasts in the fridge.

It’s a good question; but firstly we’re not in the position that the party was in 1997. It’s a totally different party than it was when it lost to Tony Blair: far more extreme, far less united and has a huge baggage of perceived rottenness. To me it’s obvious; they need to get back to the centre…because that’s where you win….but that’s not at all easy. Labour is sitting dead centre, the Libs are centre left and Reform are just going to try and poach the populous right from the Tories. This isn’t going to be a one term Labour Government; it might be as the pundits said, ‘a mile wide and an inch deep’, but you can just watch them digging the foundations deeper in everything they do. It’ll be interesting to watch but I see the Tories losing seats to the Libs and Reform at By Elections and General Elections for a long time yet: they really are stuck between a rock and a hard place….the country does need a credible centre right party…but I’m not sure how the Conservative Party can get there, such is the damage their own MP’s have done to it.

It feels like the tories are a sinking ship

Quite a lot of money to hire it? When you get 300 pounds for just turning up for a day?

In Nov 1951, the third General Election after VE Day, in a turnout of over 84%, Labour polled 49.2% whilst the Conservatives polled just over 43% they won with the help of the Nat Libs. In 2024, Labour polled 36%. It took Labour thirteen years from 1951 to win again and then only by a majority of one.

Let's take the world back from the DICTATORSHIPS and their enablers 😅

And now, of course, they are all coming out with what a great guy Sunak is. Sickening backsliding, but no surprise here.

You had me at Fall Out Boy.

Can we get Mones back and all our money ta ...

Moose? MOOSE?!!?!?

Hopefully never again.

Love fall out boy

6 months of Labour rule should do the trick.

Fall Out Boy were big in the 2000s. At least try to be relevant.

Just got board waiting

Even Corbyn got more votes than Starmer

Labour's victory is very shallow, to reverse it would only take the collapse of reform' s vote and an increase in turn out.

Surely this should be called "how to lose an election"? The Conservatives have proved how to do this in spades. The rather T0ry-centered approach of this podcast continues to irritate me. But then again, it is The Times.