POLITICS
Leaning too far right puts off voters, Tory centrists say
One Nation group issues policy pleas for Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement
Damian Green, the leader of the One Nation caucus, said that although the Conservative Party should have a range of views, it should “never be captured by one wing of it”
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The Conservative Party risks “falling into an unrecoverable position” with voters if it allows itself to be “captured” by the right, moderate Tories have warned.
The One Nation caucus of Conservative MPs, which represents 106 of those in the centre of the party, said that it was time for the prime minister to “move on from the unhelpful statements some of our party have used”.
The group made the intervention as it launched three policy requests for Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement on Wednesday.
Damian Green, the former de facto deputy prime minister who leads the group, told Times Radio on Sunday that although the party should have a range of views, it should “never be captured by one wing of it”.
The intervention came as
