How the Conservative Party can win Telegraph readers back

Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Mel Stride have entered the race to secure the candidacy of the leadership of the Conservative Party. 
 
The decision to be made about Rishi Sunak’s successor will define the future of the party as it gears for the fight against Sir Keir Starmer for the next five years. 
 
Consequently, we have wondered and posed to Telegraph readers, about the ways through which the Conservative Party could reclaim their support and, most likely, their ballots. 
 
Specifically, 65 per cent of more than a 1,000 readers said that, if the party is willing to make the necessary changes, it can regain the lost votes. On the other hand, 23 percent of readers insisted that the Conservatives can never make a comeback while 12 percent believed that the Tories never lacked support. 
 
One of the key six provisions which readers who can be persuaded to vote Conservative again wanted watered down was net zero. 
 
Reader Susan Hudley said that the Tories “should go back to basics” and “stop all this net zero nonsense and bring back energy back to the UK. ” 
 
She continued: To which they must approve more oil drilling in North Sea and fracking wherever the economics of such activity justify it As to the World Economic Forum “climate change “group-think has to be rejected. 
 
Terry O’Dowd also said that he will vote Conservative once they axe all the net zero targets that are impoverishing the population. 
 
The same writer, reader P. Harrington observed the following views that the party should quit or “abandon unrealistic Net Zero targets. ” 
 
‘I commit to get a proper grip of the immigration issue’. 
 
Another matter which readers are convinced that must be solved before they restore the Conservative party vote is immigration. 
 
For example, the reader with the nickname Mike Philips demanded the Tories to “act like a Right-wing party and control immigration” as that would be only “the beginning” of the political movement’s victory. 
 
Cornelius Tyrell wrote: “Mr Cameron and the Conservatives would have to suggest a two-year moratorium on immigration while searching for a long-term solution to restrict numbers – and that wanted rejection of ECHR. ” 
 
Also, Susan Kimber concurred with Mr Tyrell. She said: “They have to pledge to withdraw from the ECHR and finally grasp the issue of illegals. ” 
 
‘They should adopt Reform UK as its running mate’. 
 
Many people have increasingly demanded for the Tories to form an alliance or merger with Reform UK as the two combine to join forces in the Right vote. 
 
Still, one reader, Anthony Walker, said ‘They should jump into bed with Reform and it turns out most of the ‘One Nation’ Tories are in the wrong party’. 
 
He continued: “Furthermore, they should re-establish the new Reform/Conservative Party on the bases of mainstream Conservatism based on values such as low taxes, small state and individual responsibility. 
 
Similarly, “adopting Reform UK as running mate would be a good start” reader Phillip Searle said as he stated that “it’s clear the liberal-Left side of the Tory party are the real ones in crisis. ” 
 
John Eley however inferred that the Tories required a massive elimination of the “wets” in the party. He said the Tories can only regain the public’s trust by choosing a real conservative as the party leader and team up with Reform UK during the next general election. 
 
Last, reader Lee Papworth expressed that he was on the verge of concluding that the Tories are a lost cause: the party “must seek a way back to real conservatism given that the policies are required that would foster growth, reward work and efficiency, penalise criminals and protect their supporters against the juxtaposition of woke doctrinaire. 

He suggested that the Tories should read Reform UK’s manifesto as “all the answers are in there. ” 
 
Mr James Cleverly, who aspires to be a leader of the Conservative party has already crossed out the idea of the combined effort of the Conservative Party and Reform. He said: In fact the spokespeople of the conservative party stated very clearly that, “The Conservative Party doesn’t do mergers”. 
 
Paul Camp further stated that any candidate for leadership of the Tory party that does not emulate James Cleverly and rule out a merger with Reform, will be politically, ‘dead in the water’. 
 
He feels that “only a handful of MPs will vote for them in the initial round of elections” He is wrong on this though. 
 
Similarly, Ivan Yardley claimed that he would not vote for the party that is a ‘merger’ with the ‘centre-left Tories’ or ‘Tories’ from on high and he said that as a person who has, up until the last election, voted Conservative for more than 45 years. 

“This is what James Cleverly declared is intended for the One Nation’s fans, which the party still has around its neck,” one reader Paul Walsh stated further, saying “It must be music to Nigel Farage’s ears but Reform would not engage with any party in the likes of Cleverly. 
 
‘Too influenced by progressivism’ 
 
Not surprising, many of the readers have asked how far Left has the Conservative Party gone? They wanted to go back to real conservatism in order to preserve the principles of the people they once had in their fold. 
 
For instance, an anonymous reader shared: “The key is that all the candidates standing have to declare it and then prove it’ The candidates standing must clearly declare they will go back to mainstream conservatism. 
 
James Francis stated that the current Conservative Party is liberalism inclined and stated that ‘we could not vote for a party that was conservative in name only in the election. ’ 
 
‘I’m never going back’ 

That is particularly perceptive for some of the readers about the Tories who can only be considered a lost cause. 
 
Reader Gerard Meade asserted: That is why I simply do not trust the Conservative Party to deliver. ” After 45 years of my voting for professional politicians like them I will never vote for them again. During their campaign they made substantive promises they were to deliver as per their pledges but instead they deviated by concentrating on minor issues while leaving the bigger question marks in the country unsolved. 
 
“They were lazy, incompetent and untrustworthy,” he added. 
 
Looking back at why ‘there is nothing now’ the Tories can do to get him to vote for them again, the electorate of Les Davey can be seen as idolisinghim rather than the other way round. ‘They have had their day and blew the 80-seat majority’ 
 
He went on to explicate further to them how “the last drop was the coup to install Rishi Sunak in power, while making certain that members only vote on them. ” It was disgusting that is why I had to quit membership. 
 
“I have been a supporter and member of the Reform right from the time and shall remain one since they themselves are the future for those with genuine conservative attitudes and principles as far as I am concerned I’m never going back. ”

With similar sentiments, reader Rosemary Woolley post: “They can fight for anything they please, but I will not trust them enough to vote for them. ” 
 
She continued: “We require a brand new government totally we want this reform from now onwards therefore I will invariably vote for Reform or not at all And it is pitiful because I used to be a Conservative man. ” 
 
It gets better; The Tories should open up dialogue with their members. 

A few of the readers felt that the Tories never lost their support despite the change of leadership, and while Wayne Barrett also stated the same, he mentioned that what the Party required was a transition to a Thatcherite Party. 
 
He also opined that the party should ‘communicate with its members I hear members with great ideas, ideas that the Party should take to the house of commons. 
 
He continued: “If there was a social talk of email that the members of the party can use to post ideas then, ideas from the public can help influence the party and its leadership. 
 
“After all, people in the House of Commons are not interacting with the real people, the ones who see the chimera which prevents people from voting for them. ” 
 
James Phillips, a person who “will always support the Conservative Party because that is who I fundamentally am” was disappointed in the fact that “by scandal and/or lack of introducing real conservative policies” the Party has been voted down by the public. 
 
The reader, like many others, wants to see the ANC which is the party of tradition and patriotism” go back to basic and learn what it means to be a British conservative “If this is is done this party will back to the heights of British politics,” he stressed.