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Former Brexit minister Lord Frost and ex-Brexit Opportunities minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg are to team up at an event to heap pressure on Rishi Sunak to change his key economic policies.
The two former ministers and critics of the Prime Minister will be keynote speakers at an event entitled “Restore Conservatism” at the Tory conference in Manchester.
The event, hosted by the Legatum Institute, will also see a heavyweight figure from the US, Heritage Foundation President Ted Bromund, give his assessment of the current government’s failings.
It comes as the Prime Minister looks in danger of losing control of his own conference.
Instead of providing a platform to launch his election pitch for next year, MPs on the right of the party have hijacked the conference to push for tax cuts, tackling woke issues and leaving the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
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It comes as Express.co.uk revealed on Friday night that Sir Jacob along with former Prime Minister Liz Truss and leading figures like Dame Priti Patel among 32 MPs signed a pledge to oppose any more tax rises on the eve of the conference.
On Monday MPs from the rightwing Common Sense Group and The New Conservatives will join Boris Johnson allies to push for a complete overhaul of Conservative policy in a “rally for the manifesto”.
The “Restore Conservatism” event at 10.30am on Tuesday in the Trafford Room of the Midland Hotel, will carry on the momentum of the party pushing for change.
The whole conference starts tonight with critics of Mr Sunak gathering for the Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) dinner.
The CDO is a grassroots organisation set up after the fury members felt when MPs held coups against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, installing Mr Sunak as leader without a vote.
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Last year Ms Truss lost control of the conference when allies of Mr Sunak led by Michael Gove launched rebellions against her mini budget.
Now this year Ms Truss and Mr Johnson’s allies appear to be striking back with the week threatening to descend into a full scale revolt against the Prime Minister’s high tax policies.
At the event, Lord Forst will call for the need to revive political and economic freedom and the critical need to boost growth through free markets. He will also call on the government to reduce in size and make it more efficient and effective in what it does do.
New Conservative group co-founder Miram Cates, a rising star among MPs on the right, said the UK has become “the family breakdown capital of the West” and will call for tax reform to protect, encourage and support families.
Ms Cates is set to warn government: “If we don’t have policies that are socially conservative, we can never have policies that are fiscally conservative”.
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP will rally against managed decline groupthink with a speech on how the UK should look to its economic conservative roots in order to turn the economy around.
A former No10 Special Advisor said: “This year’s conference is a real opportunity for members to be reminded that not all is lost and that there are conservative figureheads still fighting for them and their priorities.
“We can do better than managed decline and its crucial that members voices are heard and amplified”.
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