Here’s the latest in our Another Voice series of posts, which give prominence to viewpoints outside the normal Coffee House fold. This time it’s
the IPPR’s Associate Director, Will Straw, with his five-point take on the fringe events of Tory conference, and the lessons that might be learned from them:
1. The Tories know that winning a working majority in 2015 is no easy task. The most popular fringe event according to Fringelist.com was ConservativeHome’s event on
‘How the Conservatives can win the next election.’ Reflecting his remarks from the panel, YouGov’s Stephan
Shakespeare wrote yesterday that,
“today’s electoral maths makes an overall a majority a mountain to climb”.
Even if the boundary changes pass, the Tories will need to pick up seats from both Labour and the Lib Dems to govern alone.
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