Tories accused of eliminating 'high quality' candidates who support Brexit

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Rishi Sunak has been accused of eliminating pro-Brexit Tory candidates from the party before the general election.

Right-wing Tories believe Downing Street is preventing "true blue" candidates who support low-tax, small-state conservatism from running for office so that the party would instead be dominated by centrists.

If the conservatives lost, Mr. Sunak subsequently resigning, the Prime Minister would still have prevented the party from moving to the right by filling it with One Nation Tories who would not favor right-wing leadership candidates.

Rishi Sunak accused of favoring centrist candidates (PA)

Some Conservative MPs said high-quality candidates for the list of approved parliamentary candidates were being rejected due to their traditional conservative values, while those who might not have The skills required to become an MP are implemented because they believe in high taxation and public spending.

The candidates described the responsible for the selection process as "yellow conservatives", meaning that their preferred candidates are almost indistinguishable from others. Liberal Democrats. They also told The Telegraph that there is an anti-Brexit bias among interviewers.

This row is representative of the wider civil war underway within the Conservative party. Some argue that a move to the right is the only way to combat the threat of Reform Britain, while others insist that occupying center ground is the only way to remain electable.

Aman Bhogal, a former diplomat. who has not been elected since running for the seat of Upper Bann in Northern Ireland in 2015, claimed that the Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), which is in charge of the candidate list approved, was involved in a “set-up”, preventing the right from voting. wingers to appear on constituency shortlists.