Who are the New Conservatives?

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A group of 25 Tory MPs, calling themselves the New Conservatives, have launched a plan that they say will cut net migration from 606,000, last year's figure, to 226,000, the figure in 2019. Temporary visa schemes for care workers should be shut, the 'skilled work' salary threshold raised, and the number of refugees accepted into the UK capped. Who is in the group, and what do they want?

James Heale speaks to Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls.

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews
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0:20.3	forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today
0:29.3	by Katie Balls and this bellhardman. Now Katie this morning the new conservators group is launching
0:34.9	a rival manifesto. Talking about the pledges it would like to see next year when the conservators
0:39.6	are campaigning for their election campaign. It does about this. So the new conservators launched
0:44.5	as Parliament's latest caucus a few weeks ago. I think one of the most striking things about it is
0:51.2	it doesn't have loads of members but generally speaking they're from the 2017-2019 intakes.
0:56.8	The majority have red wall seats. Danny Krueger who was a founding force does not have a red wall seat
1:03.3	but he's and he's a very safe sufficiency but he was of course Boris Johnson's political secretary
1:08.6	so he argues and he's also fairly prolific at the moment for speaking at nap con and other events
1:14.3	that the party needs to get back to his 2019 voter coalition and make sure it goes good on those
1:20.8	promises. It's definitely a cause as you've read about James of annoyance amongst many in the Tory
1:26.8	party that Leanderson is a member of the group because he's a deputy chairman. Now technically
1:31.6	he is not getting paid money by the party at the moment but that's more because he's taken a very
1:36.0	well-paid show on GB News and he's not a vice chair he is deputy chairman and therefore there are
1:43.8	lots of MPs who have complained about why it is you'd be allowed to what is in effect a pressure group
1:50.1	on the government on government policy while having a role if you think back to Theresa Mayera
1:55.7	James cleverly deputy chairman was constantly going out and defending Theresa May's Brexit deal
2:00.8	and being very on message and you can say these are things that Tory voters want and so forth but
2:06.0	it's not government policies so so that's one point of intrigue. What the group have done today
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