21-05-2025
The Tory Party Will Be Dead In 10 Years, A Labour Minister Has Claimed
The Conservative Party will no longer exist in 10 years' time, a Labour minister has claimed.
Chris Bryant made the startling prediction after an opinion poll showed the Tories in fourth place behind the Lib Dems.
The findings have piled even more pressure on Badenoch, who has struggled to turn around her party's fortunes since becoming Tory leader barely six months ago.
Over the same period, the Conservatives have been replaced by Reform UK as the main party on the right of British politics.
Appearing on BBC 2′s Politics Live programme, data protection minister Bryant said: 'I don't think there will be a Conservative Party in 10 years in the UK. I think they will be gone.'
Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately told him: 'That's what people said when you guys had Jeremy Corbyn as your leader.'
Bryant hit back: 'Yes indeed, and you've now got the equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn as your leader. That's precisely what I was thinking when I was watching PMQs.
'I think the thing that the Conservative Party has yet to show that it has learned, is that if you offer to spend lots more money and don't say where the money's coming from, which is precisely what Liz Truss did, then you're stuffed.'
Chris Bryant: I don't think there will be a Tory Party in 10 yearsHelen Whately(Tory MP): That's what people said when you guys had Jeremy CorbynCB: You've now got the equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn as your leader. #
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 21, 2025
Bryant was echoing Keir Starmer, who last week described the Tories as 'a dead party walking'.
'The project for them is over, they're sliding into oblivion,' the PM said.
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