The paper reports: “At the time of the leadership election last year, the Tories had 131,000 members but this has since fallen to 123,000.
It’s going from bad to worse for Kemi Badenoch, after the latest membership figures for the Tory party showed 8,000 members had left since she became leader, in what is another blow to her authority.
In what will only fuel further fears over the future of her leadership among Tories, the Telegraph reports the party has 8,000 fewer members than they did when Mrs Badenoch won the party leadership in November.
The paper reports: “At the time of the leadership election last year, the Tories had 131,000 members but this has since fallen to 123,000.
“The statistics, first reported by The Spectator and not denied by the party, are a further blow to Mrs Badenoch and come amid mounting questions about her future as party leader.”
News of the membership figures comes as the Tories continue to trail Reform in the polls, with Badenoch having failed to turn around the fortunes of her party after its worst election defeat in it’s parliamentary history.
Looks like Badenoch is in for another summer of discontent…
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
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