After the next election, Bob Blackman’s role as chair of the 1922 Committee should be much easier. With the Conservative party set to be wiped out across the country, it’s not inconceivable that the Harrow East MP will be the last Tory left in the Commons. It is the only seat in the country where the Conservatives exceed 50 per cent of the vote last year.
Alone on the green benches, Blackman will no longer need to worry about organising no confidence votes, massaging backbench egos, or finding exciting new ways to pledge loyalty to the latest failing leader. He will be the Parliamentary Conservative Party. In which case, one suggests, he should bite the bullet and reach the logical conclusion of his political journey over the last decade: declare the Tories dead and relaunch as the official Yookay MP for India’s Bhartiya Janata party (BJP).
Earlier this week, Blackman retweeted a BJP post celebrating India’s armed forces striking nine targets in Pakistan as part of #OperationSindoor.
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