TORY MP Marco Longhi has declared his support for Boris Johnson saying he’s the person to pull the party back together,
Speaking to GB News’ Alastair Stewart he said: “Boris will know he has to be a unifying person and offer his olive branch. I know this might be a slightly clumsy way of putting this, but he has to be the unity candidate and the unity leader, and I do believe that his record will show that his way of campaigning amongst the people is that he is able to pull everyone together.
“He has an ability to win in red wall seats. He has proven that once already, which no other candidate can do. He does have that electoral mandate that no other candidate can say they have. And that is the reason why I’m backing Boris.”
Whilst the Conservative Party leadership has been changing, Boris Johnson has been away on holiday with his family in the Caribbean. However, Mr Longhi believes being absent as Liz Truss stepped down was the right move for Boris.
He said: “Sometimes when you have that kind of presence you don’t want to be adding fuel to a fire that’s burning intensely. I think it was the right thing for Boris to keep out of any of that. Every door I knock on and on every street corner I turn and bump into people, by a very long margin, people are saying we want Boris back. They are saying that he was never given a chance and that is who I voted for.
“They want Boris to come back, and at least be given the chance, because he was never given a chance because of Covid. This is why I think it’s right that Boris comes back, and I hope he does. We have been through unprecedented times. Covid wasn’t in any party’s manifesto, Boris had to respond to that. The Government was pretty much paralysed for 18 months to two years.”
Meanwhile Mr Longhi said he felt sympathy for former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
He added: “I feel terribly sad for Liz and for Kwasi, because I do believe their agenda for growth was the correct one. I think some mistakes, as Liz herself acknowledged, were made in terms of how quickly and how deeply. It was too much of a shock to a system, we should have perhaps planned it in more of a staged way. But it’s impossible for us to pretend that we’re going to grow the economy in the same ways that we’ve tried to in the last 15 years.”
