Pat McFadden responds to Rishi Sunak's conference speech

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s National Campaign Coordinator, responding to the Prime Minister’s conference speech, said:

“After 13 years and five Tory Prime Ministers, Rishi Sunak’s latest desperate attempt to reset his weak leadership and divided government won’t fool the British public who are looking at Tory failures all around them.

“Sunak’s weakness is having a decaying effect on his party and the country. Members of his cabinet have spent this week jockeying for position to replace him, while Liz Truss, Nigel Farage and conspiracy theories lifted from the darkest corners of the internet have dominated his conference. How can a man who can’t even run his own party seriously claim he’s capable of running the country?

“The Tories have let Britain down for too long. They cannot be the change from their own failures. The damage they would do with five more years would be intolerable for working people.

“To turn the page on this chaos, the country needs the election of a Labour Government committed to ending the Tory decline and rebuilding Britain.

“The Conservatives on the other hand need to sort out their identity crisis, step back from the brink, and have their coming leadership election from the comfort of opposition.”