Tory MP puts pressure on Sunak to 'reassemble' 2019 coalition - ‘Public are crying out for change!’

Kruger said: “My view is that we face a huge number of threats in the West generally, and in the UK specifically.

“They are long-term threats, largely driven by technology and changes in our society and our economy.

“We feel very precarious. I think that is driving a lot of the politics of the West at the moment, people feeling very nervous about all sorts of different threats: , system threats, economic threats, cultural threats, ecological threats, military threats, of course, as well.

“The question is, how strong is our state and how strong is our society?

“What I argue for in my new book is that we need to think about the conditions in which people behave well towards each other.

“It’s not right for the state to come in and fix every problem in retrospect after it's developed.

“We should think about, not just as a Government but as a society, how we nurture the virtues, values, behaviour, habits, relationships that make us strong.”

He added: “There was a call from the public, not just to take back control from Brussels, but for a reset in our politics and the way we organise ourselves.

“There’s a demand for significant change, and of course we delivered that with Brexit … given events since - Covid, Ukraine, economic challenge - I think the public are now asking ‘where’s the real change that we demanded last time around?’”

Ramping up pressure on Sunak, Kruger concluded: “What we think the Government should be doing is reassembling that coalition of voters who put us into power in 2019.

“That includes places like where I represent in Wiltshire, the traditional base of the Tory Party, but also those ‘small c’ conservative voters who used to vote Labour but voted for us last time because they want change.

“I think the public are still crying out for the change they demanded last time around.”

The Conservative Party won the 2019 election after Boris Johnson managed to win over voters in both the traditional Tory shires and so-called Red Wall.

The manifesto made several commitments to increasing public spending and bolster public services.

However, it also pledged to reduce immigration and bring to an end the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union.

The Tory Party is now seemingly struggling to reunite its 2019 coalition, with votes going to the Liberal Democrats in the Blue Wall and Labour in the Red Wall.

The Prime Minister faces a difficult challenge ahead of the Conservative Party conference with Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey vying to give Sunak a bloody nose in the upcoming Mid Bedfordshire by-election.