Tory leadership hopeful Mel Stride brutally told ‘you won’t be PM’ on TV

Tory leadership hopeful Mel Stride was brutally told 'you won't be PM' on TV.Source: GB News

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00:00If you win the position of Leader of the Opposition, you won't be Prime Minister.

00:03There's no guarantee.

00:04No, you won't be Prime Minister.

00:06Hold on. I simply do not accept that.

00:09So if you were interviewing me after the 2019 general election,

00:12and heaven forbid I was a socialist,

00:15you would be saying this is the worst result since the 1930s.

00:18There is no conceivable way you are going to be in government in 2024.

00:23And yet, look what happened.

00:25There are no rules left in politics.

00:28And look at Labour's position.

00:29They've won on the smallest proportion of the popular vote in our history, under 34%.

00:36They had the benefit of a lot of tactical voting,

00:3955,000 voters to elect a Conservative MP, just 25,000 for a Labour MP.

00:45That is going to start to unwind.

00:47And I think we may see Labour built with its fortress as a castle of sand, actually,

00:53that we can wash away.