Conservative Leadership debacle continues
September 28, 2005 12:37 PM
Conservative Leadership debacle continues
Michael Howard, the current Conservative Leader has suffered a defeat by the grassroots of the party to reform the way the new Leader will be selected. Having failed to win the two-thirds majority needed for change, the leadership contest will be held under the current rules, with MPs choosing two candidates to go to a vote of all Conservative members, a move that could prolong the contest until Christmas or beyond.
Paul Holmes, Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party, said "Today's vote shows what a complete shambles the Conservatives are in, and it shows just how out of touch Tory MPs were in the first place that they wanted to deny democracy to their party members. It is clear that the only opposition to this increasingly authoritarian Labour government will come from the Liberal Democrats and not the discredited and irrelevant Conservatives."
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