BURSTThe new shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy said he was ‘sorry’ for how the Conservatives ‘handled certain things in those last few years’ in power
Nick Timothy has also said too many politicians “lack seriousness” following the defection of his shadow cabinet predecessor Robert Jenrick to Reform UK.
Speaking to GB News, the new shadow justice secretary said he did not recognise the characterisation of the Conservative party Jenrick gave during a speech at a press conference on Thursday.
One of the things about yesterday that I think was really important was the contrast between Kemi’s leadership as somebody who acted decisively and takes very seriously those challenges [which the country faces], and the sense of backbiting and backstabbing and the lack of seriousness that we see in too many politicians.
We saw it actually, to be fair, towards the end of our time in government before the 2024 general election.
I’ve said as a Conservative I’m sorry for the way the party has handled certain things in those last few years and I’ve been very open about that since I was elected for the first time 18 months ago.
The Conservative party will not move on and not persuade people to vote for us in the future in the numbers that we need unless we do look them in the eye and say we understand why we lost that election.
Yeah, Rob’s been a friend of mine for some time. It’s obviously disappointing that he’s decided to move on, but the thing is, what we learned yesterday is the clear contrast between the Conservatives led by Kemi Badenoch and the other parties and what they offer Britain today.
The public are sick of the backbiting and the backstabbing and the lack of seriousness in our political parties when the challenges that the country faces are so serious, Kemi was given irrefutable evidence of what was about to happen, and she acted very decisively.
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