“That’s probably because the policy offer just doesn’t talk to people with [centrist] attitudes, and this shift to the extreme actually does not inspire them in any way.”
He said Prosper UK’s job was to create ideas around practical economic and business issues and persuade other parties – predominantly the Conservatives – to adopt them.
When asked if Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch was listening to him, Sir Andy said she was.
“She recognises those people are there – she can see the polling as well as anybody else – and also recognises that in this stage of an opposition’s redevelopment it needs to have a vibrant debate about ideas to attract those people,” he said.
When asked whether some of the prominent Conservative Party policies proposed since November 2024 would appeal to this demographic, Street believed the proposal to abolish stamp duty was.
However, he said he did not agree with the proposal to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.