Tory Party: “A pretty broad church with not much religion,” says Lord Frost

EXCLUSIVE - “The Frost Report”, Part I of an in-depth video interview

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With the local elections looming this week, we present a fascinating interview with a key Conservative figure

Just ahead of the local elections on Thursday (02 May 2024), Lord Frost speaks candidly about all the issues of the day, starting with the state of the Conservative Party. Today Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org publish the first of a series of 10-minute videos taken from an in-depth interview with Lord David Frost by our Chairman on Friday.

In a wide-ranging interview on camera, the former diplomat, former civil servant, former Brexit Minister, and now MP candidate Lord David Frost does not hold back on matters of great concern to many. As ever, both Facts4EU and CIBUK reiterate that we are non-partisan.

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Part I – On the Conservative Party, core beliefs, reconnecting with voters, and whether he will run
Part II - On the cost of Net Zero, immigration, the ECHR
Part III – On the NHS, education, cultural issues, the judiciary, the Civil Service
Part IV – On Brexit, retained EU laws, Northern Ireland, international trade
Part V - On taxes, defence, and the upcoming election

Below we present Part I of this series, together with some selected quotes from what Lord Frost has to say about Conservatism in just 10 minutes. Well worth watching.

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Extracts from Part I of this interview

On the Conservative Party as a whole:

“It is certainly fair to say it’s got a pretty broad church with not much religion…”

“Ideologically too broad"

On what should be the Party’s core beliefs

Economic growth and economic freedom
Standing for the nation state
Personal freedom

On reconnecting with voters

“The Red Wall fallacy – that because we got a lot of Labour votes at the last election we need a lot of ex-Labour policies.”

“In 2019… a lot of people who were in every way Conservative in lifestyle, beliefs, aspirations… Actually then finally voted Conservative…”

“Now if people vote for us because they are Conservatives, then we should do the honour of believing that and deliver some Conservative policies.”

“2/3rds of our voters have drifted away since 2019. We didn’t give them what they thought they were going to get and the right way forward is to have proper Conservative policies…. That will bring people back to the Party…At the moment we’re not doing that.”

On policies designed to reconnect the Party

Tax and spending down
Build more houses
Deal with catastrophe of Net Zero
Public service reform – NHS cannot carry on as it is
Roll back regulation on employment, environment, planning

On candidate selection

Concern about ideological background of some of the candidates. Lack of conviction of candidates and some MPs. Stronger ideological tests required?

On his own possible selection

“I am on the candidates’ list. I need to make sure it’s a seat I believe I can win in the right kind of place and I need to be confident the party will let me run at such a seat and be selected for it.

”I’m not 100% confident at the moment, which is a pity. But there’s still time.”

“I have been critical of the approach that’s been taken by the current leadership so in a way it wouldn’t be that surprising but we shall have to see…”

Observations

We receive many emails and messages from the public. A common theme is the quality of people they are invited to vote for. This applies across the political spectrum.

Regardless of political beliefs, we felt that Lord David Frost is an individual of stature, experience, knowledge, and intelligence, and we hope our readers and audience will find what he had to say interesting.

Ahead of the local elections on Thursday - which seem likely to make the headlines - Facts4EU and CIBUK are grateful to Lord Frost for giving up so much of his time to speak to you all. We have deliberately split this major interview into five parts. We are presenting these in five “bite-sized chunks” of 10 minutes each.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Mon 29 Apr 2024

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Reader Comments 7

1. Sparky , Monday, April 29, 2024, 07:00:

ITV discussing a poll this morning that they have carried out. 69% think Britain is broken, 44% will vote Labour. The Cons will be badly punished at the forthcoming elections.
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The Cons delivered Brexit on slogans and immigration. The Right wing of the Cons put a liar as PM, tried to hijack the Brexit win with a shift to the right and a no deal departure from the EU which is not what VoteLeave campaigned for. Brexit has not delivered and as a result we will get a Labour Govt and Lord Frost is one of the reasons we will. The Cons need to come back to the Centre where they belong.

2. Sparky , Monday, April 29, 2024, 07:07:

Also in the news, the Republic of Ireland has had a £600 million boost in tax revenue collected from duties on imports from the UK following Brexit.

3. Gazzablack , Monday, April 29, 2024, 08:22:

1 & 2 Utterly sparkless
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The UK has quota and tariff free trade with Ireland, so what are these "duties"?
BTW - The UK benefits by keeping $3.5bn customs duties that were previously passed on to the EU
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And a reminder - Remain was the official stated position of the TORY government during the referendum campaign.
So in no way can it be described as a "Tory Brexit".
Had David Cameron genuinely believed that leave would win he would have found a way to renege on his promise to hold a referendum.
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I see you've dropped the activist Grauniad in favour of the activist ITV, and I'm looking forward to you further dropping ITV and referencing Fagash Lil instead.

4. terence patrick hewett , Monday, April 29, 2024, 08:28:

Another step in the ongoing political re-alignment of the UK. Within a decade, the two major political parties will be unrecognisable or non-existent. And the only thing rejoiniacs will manage to join, will be the pathetic lost causes club, together with the bearded and besandalled weirdoes of CND.

5. NH , Monday, April 29, 2024, 09:00:

2. Sparky, "Ireland has had a £600 million boost in tax revenue"
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No it has not !
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This is a tax on Irish customers it does not effect the UK. The Irish Government does not get to keep the tax it has to send most of it to the EU. It only gets to keep 25% to cover the administration and collection costs. This involves imports mainly from China which come into the ROI via the UK. Prior to Brexit this duty was added to the costs in the UK and sent directly to the EU. This is not new, after Brexit UK companies that manufactured items in Asia redirected shipments directly to EU countries rather than shipping them via the UK. This had no effect on UK companies it just resulted in EU consumers having to pay more and the increased payments went to the parasites in the EU.

6. Gazzablack , Monday, April 29, 2024, 15:00:

Ireland providing much to laugh about today.
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So insistent that there must be no border between the UK and Ireland, only to now bemoan the fact that they have an influx of migrants from NI because there is no border.
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Even worse, the EU's new migration pact allocates quotas on the basis of GDP, so Ireland is not only going to receive all those fleeing the UK Rwanda scheme, but also much more than other EU nations "allocation" because of it's "attractive 12.5% Corporation Tax rate".
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Northern Ireland Secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris stated that there won't be a UK-Ireland returns agreement - if they want a deal It has to be at the EU level.

7. Carolyn Anderson , Monday, April 29, 2024, 20:39:

Unfortunately David Frost arranged for the awful YouGov poll in the Telegraph designed to bring down Rishi Sunak. It will be interesting to see if he is actually forgiven for that and selected as a candidate.

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