Brandon Lewis: I hope our councillors will vote Conservative
After fighting off some technical glitches this morning, the new series of the Marr Show featured an interview with the Conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis. With local elections, and potentially, European elections approaching next month, Mishal Husain (filling in for Marr) asked Lewis about the party’s dire standing in the opinion polls. Of particular concern was a poll of Conservative councillors showing that 40 per cent were planning to vote for Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party if the European elections went ahead:
MH: When nearly 800 of your councillors were questioned for a survey, 40 per cent of them said they would be voting for the Brexit party…
BL: …If we have to fight these European elections, I fully appreciate the huge frustration that people, particularly our members and councillors have, that we haven’t left the EU yet, and that we might have to fight these elections at all.
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