Tory Membership 30,000 Bigger than Believed
On August 17th the Tories, LibDems and Labour all had their occasion accounts printed by the Electoral Fee – solely the Tories didn’t embody their membership figures. Labour’s have been down 91,000 on the earlier 12 months and the LibDems are down 53,000 since Sir Ed Davey took over. Hypothesis in regards to the Tories’ hordes has been rife, not least as a result of we don’t know what number of Brits have been eligible to vote within the management election.
Whereas 160,000 eligible members is the understood ballpark, this afternoon Guido was advised the true membership determine is now nearer to 190,000, which is round 10,000 greater than the figures reported by then-party chairman Brandon Lewis forward of the 2019 management election. CCHQ have been at pains to emphasize the variety of members eligible to vote within the management election is far nearer to the already-reported 160,000, although the true determine is an honest quantity for Liz to construct on…
