Tory MP attacks ‘sugar-free conservatism’ and ‘overwhelming population growth’

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sir John Hayes warned that there was a “widening chasm between the people of Britain and the elite who profess to serve them” during a speech to the National Conservatism conference in Westminster. It means ending the overwhelming population growth which strains public services and changes beyond recognition the character of our towns and cities Sir John Hayes “No, we must look to a genuine, authentic, time-honoured, true conservatism, free from the lonely individualism and selfish materialism of liberalism.” The Lincolnshire MP also used his speech to warn that mass immigration and “overwhelming” population growth threatened to strain public services and change Britain’s towns and cities “beyond recognition. In a wide-ranging speech on Tuesday, Sir John criticised Tony Blair’s creation of the Supreme Court as constitutional “vandalism”, described Gina Miller’s legal challenges to Boris Johnson’s Brexit policy as “malevolent” and claimed devolution “threatens to tear our precious union of nations apart”. “It means ending the overwhelming population growth which strains public services and changes beyond recognition the character of our towns and cities.”