Jacob Rees-Mogg reveals 'real reason' Tories lost the election - 'we failed'
The Tories defeated on Thursday at the 2024 general election after a Labour landslide -aided by Nigel Farage's Reform.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives failed to deliver on its promises which caused a revolt towards Reform UK.
The former business secretary told how the former Government did not lower migration, cut taxes and reduce the size of the state
He said: ““The United Kingdom is now destined to a future of higher taxation, an increase in the size of the state, greater immigration, both legal and illegal, stagnant growth and fewer freedoms.
“What went wrong for the Conservatives? Where did we fail?
“In 2019 many voters lent their votes to the Conservatives with the aim of getting Brexit done, lowering migration, cutting taxes and reducing the size of the state.
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“The Tories failed on all of these other than Brexit, and even that wasn't completed as well as it should have been.
“This is why four million people voted for Reform. They felt the Conservative Party had let them down. And it's important to remember, no political party has a right to people's votes; they're not there to be moved across the chessboard, but each election we must win them anew.
“And the Conservative Party took its base for granted. We assumed that voters would not want, would be frightened, would fear a Labour government and would carry on voting for a Conservative government that they were uninspired by, probably even fed up with.”
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won with a majority of 174 seats, white the Tories were reduced to just 121.
Some 40 Tory seats were won by a margin of under five percent, with majorities of under 2,500 people.
Speaking to GB News, Sir Jacob said: “We failed to show ourselves to be on the side of the people who had historically voted for us. We did not appear to be Conservative and they duly blew us a large raspberry.
“Now some people keep on saying that the conservatives will only win from the centre, but this is not true. In fact, it's balderdash. It is a political myth.”