Greg Hands: disappointing results caused by 'legacy issues'

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Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands sought to blame the “legacy issues” predating Mr Sunak's premiership that led up to the two by-elections.  Mr Hands insisted that people “think that Rishi Sunak is doing a good job overall as prime minister, but that there are some issues with the Conservative Party from last year and years before. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Well, clearly these are disappointing results for the Conservatives.

00:04 Clearly there were legacy issues in both of those constituencies, if you like, the reason

00:09 for having those by-elections which long predated Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, but I'm not

00:15 denying the fact these are disappointing results for the party.

00:18 People think that Rishi Sunak is doing a good job overall as Prime Minister, that there

00:22 are some issues from the Conservative Party from last year and years before, but nonetheless

00:27 people think Rishi is doing a good job and the key question in the next general election

00:32 will be who is best placed to take the country forward, to see change, is it Rishi Sunak

00:38 or is it Sikhir Starmer and Labour and that is all still to play for, I think, for next

00:44 year's general election.

00:45 But most importantly we're looking forward to winning these two constituencies back at

00:49 the next general election.

00:52 These were both low-turnout by-elections, obviously people wanted to send a message,

00:56 an important message to the government, but we're looking forward to fighting again and

01:01 winning these two constituencies back at next year's general election.

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