Meet the Leadership Candidates, Tom Tugendhat MP - Party Reform

 23 Sept 2024 John Strafford

Meeting with Tom Tugendhat MP on Thursday with the Chesham & Amersham Conservatives. He asked me about the rules for the Leadership Election. I told him the rules should be in the main body of the Party Constitution and should only be capable of being altered by the members of the Party in a General Meeting to which all Party members were invited. Also that four candidates should go forward to the members for them to ballot and that voting should be on a preferential basis including when MPs ballot to produce the four candidates to go forward so that the wheeler dealing between rounds was eliminated. He agreed. I agreed with his speech, 100%. Great speech.

Meet the Leadership Candidates - Robert Jenrick MP

6 September 2024 - John Strafford

 I put the following question last night to Robert Jenrick MP; "Do you agree that the Conservative Party Chairman should be elected by and accountable to Party members? His response: "I am sympathetic to the idea."