Tories can win 2029 election with the ‘right leader’, claims former minister

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Conservative former minister Kevin Hollinrake has said the Tories can win the 2029 general election if the party has “the right leader”. He told Times Radio: “It should be a few months of a job, so we start on that process probably in September, and then we elect our leader by the end of the year – that’s the kind of timescale I would like.” He added: “We lost heavily, but, as I say, not to a popular Labour Government. He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “We need to take a few months to decide exactly what went wrong and then decide the right person to take us forward and to present a viable challenge to the Labour Party, which I think we can do.” He added: “We’ll go forward in terms of finding the right person. I think it’s very, very important that we present two good alternatives for our membership to have the final say on this, of course, but that will take a number of months to do that.” New Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said the Government will still expect to be challenged in the Commons despite the Tories’ heavy electoral defeat.