Lichfield’s MP says the Conservative party needs to unite and “knuckle down to the job of restoring the UK”.
Michael Fabricant’s comments come ahead of the confirmation of who the new Prime Minister will be later today (5th September).
Liz Truss is the bookmakers favourite to secure victory against Rishi Sunak in the race for number ten.
The two candidates have clashed over issues such as tackling the cost of living crisis during their campaign to become the new Conservative leader.
Mr Fabricant, who backed Liz Truss after Penny Mordaunt was knocked out of the contest in an earlier round, said it was important the party came together regardless of the result.
“Many party members feel angered at the behaviour of many MPs and Government ministers undermining Boris Johnson.
“I do understand this – frankly, I share this general view.
“But it is important now that we all unite – MPs and volunteers – and knuckle down to the job of restoring the UK.”
Michael Fabricant
The result of the leadership election is expected at around 12.30pm.
I doubt very much whoever gets in will do anything to help the people of this country they will help themselves to get richer and make the poor people poorer They have broke this country and I doubt very much if it can be fixed
One small problem here, we need politicians to be upright and substantial people. We cannot ignore the awkward fact that some of them, particularly since the Tory party turned into the Brexit party, are neither.
Fabricant is living in laa laa land. This is a party that has been happy to tolerate a liar, cheat, womaniser, and racist for 2 years (Fabricant being a BIG supporter of Boris). A party that has broken international law. A party that has ignored the current cost of living crisis for months.
Fabricant is a great example of why the party is what is it. Fabricant refuses to meet his constituents – presumably because he’s scared stiff of why they’ll tell him. He’s a cowardly man, who will do and say whatever he needs to, to impress whomever he thinks is necessary. For example, Fabricant strongly support Sunak (even hosted him at a Lichfield Conservative meeting recently), and actually tipped him for “great things”. However, as soon as it became clear that Sunak wasn’t likely to win the leadership contest – Fabricant turned on him. Fabricant cannot be trusted – it’s as simple as that. He is racist, sexist, opinionated, makes rape jokes, threatened to punch a female in the throat, and STILL supports Chris Pincher
One final thing. What has Fabricant actually done for Lichfield in the last few years? Like….tangible benefits?
When Fabricant says the tories need to restore the UK, they’ve been in charge for 12 years and last time I looked, the UK still exists. Just about. No thanks to his mad brexit/ ukip Tory party.
Plus, the tories won’t unite around Truss, the Parliamentary party don’t want her.
General Election needed as soon as possible.
An admission that your government has ruined this country. General election now!
But at least that loser Boris is now officially no more as PM. Hurrah and good riddance as he was the worst person IMO to ever have inhabited Number 10. In fact, even Thatcher (dare I say it) was an angel by stark comparison, even though my own personal opinion of her certainly was never very high, to say the very least.
As for Truss, whatever foibles she may have, I think we should at least give her a chance before prematurely writing her off as a total failure, even though I personally would much rather have had either Starmer or Davey in Number 10 instead, but of course that’s not really possible at this particular moment in time.
Nevertheless, I would like to wish Truss the best of luck with her new premiership, even though I don’t envy her gig as she’s got a helluva lot of work to do in order to try to turn this country round again!
The only thing I’d like to see the Tories unite on is surrendering power. They have proved themselves self centred and incompetent, and Boris the buffoon’s record has been appalling. I’d rather have the Monster Raving Loony Party in charge, they couldn’t do any worse.
Would be a start if the Tories went back to actually being Tories and not watered down Labour. At the end of the day whoever has the keys to the top job, from whichever side of the antiquated two-party system we have, will be a puppet of the WEF