Ex-Home Secretary Urges Tory Members To ‘Take Back Control’ As Major Donor Calls To Cease Party Funding

Concerns are expressed over the selection process for Conservative candidates as pressure grows on Sunak ahead of a potential new Tory manifesto.
Ex-Home Secretary Urges Tory Members To ‘Take Back Control’ As Major Donor Calls To Cease Party Funding
Baron Cruddas speaks during the Conservative Democratic Organisation's black tie gala at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester. Taken: October 1st 2023. Joseph Robertson/The Epoch Times
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MANCHESTER—Former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel has called for the Tory Membership to “take back control” of the selection process within the party, as a former major donor and ally of Boris Johnson, Lord Peter Cruddas, called on donors to cease funding the party all together until greater power is given back to the membership.
Speaking at the Conservative Democratic Organisation’s (CDO) black-tie gala, on the fringes of the Tory conference in Manchester last night, Dame Priti stated that the CDO had stopped “so many members of the Conservative Party from leaving,” during political upheaval last year, which saw both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss resign as prime minister.
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