Baroness Davidson and Sir Andy Street have a vision of a moderate, centrist Conservative party which provides an antidote to Nigel Farage and Reform. As Andy Maciver analyses here, they have identified the only way to save their party, but their supporters may not be prepared to wait that long to get back into power

When former Scottish Tory leader Baroness Ruth Davidson, along with former West Midlands mayor Sir Andy Street, launched a new political movement earlier this year, they identified seven million ‘politically homeless’ voters. 

Self-described ‘moderate’ Conservatives, Baroness Davidson and Sir Andy formally harnessed a large group of former Tory MPs who clearly believe that by reaching the T-junction and turning right in pursuit of Nigel Farage, their party leader Kemi Badenoch made the wrong call, and should instead have turned left in pursuit of the centre-ground and the aforementioned homeless.

It is worth interrogating the choice Ms Badenoch had (and, I suppose, still has). 

On the basis that the best predictor of the future is the past, it has always intrigued me that precious few British Conservatives have taken the time to study the fate of their sister-party in Canada. They may now consider their sister party to be the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), but that party is new, formed only in this century. The traditional sister party was the Progressive Conservatives (PC) - a party which was put out of business by an insurgent alternative by the name of Reform. 

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