{"id":390126,"date":"2026-01-25T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:08:08","slug":"tory-pair-aim-to-attract-politically-homeless-with-new-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390126\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory pair aim to attract &#8216;politically homeless&#8217; with new movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Andy, a former managing director of John Lewis who was twice elected as a Conservative mayor in the West Midlands, said &#8220;the forces of populism on the left and the right are rampant across the western world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the new movement was about saying &#8220;no, they are not in Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is still a really, really strong centre-right who believe in Britain, believe in its institutions, believe in its future, and who want to build things up and not knock things down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baroness Davidson said Badenoch was a &#8220;solid Conservative who can speak naturally to a broad range of people who are current supporters or potential supporters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she added there was a &#8220;large group of people who are potential supporters, where she might not be the best messenger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baroness Davidson, who was Scottish leader when the Conservatives replaced Labour as the second-largest party in the Scottish Parliament, said: &#8220;This is about people that feel that the Conservative party left them but also feel like they don&#8217;t have a home in Labour or the Liberal Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on X, she said: &#8220;We want to speak to those who feel politically homeless and to work with them &#8211; and business &#8211; to develop practical, pragmatic policies to improve lives &amp; opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Andy, a former managing director of John Lewis who was twice elected as a Conservative mayor in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}