In the wake of the Conservative Party’s disappointing local election results last week, a succession of backbench Tory MPs were on hand for BBC Radio Four’s The World at One to explain what had gone wrong.
“We’ve been hit with unrealistic housing targets in my constituency,” said Kelly Tolhurst, MP for Rochester and Stroud. “There’s uproar against that from the local community.” But next it was the turn of Charles Walker, MP for Broxbourne: “If the Conservatives don’t build homes for young people, and we go down that path, I suspect we won’t like what we find at the end of it.”
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