by George Freeman
The shock of seeing Jeremy Corbyn successfully reap the benefit of a woeful election campaign has triggered a lot of soul searching amongst Conservatives. Rightly so. I believe we need to take a long hard look at why the campaign went so wrong, and the real reasons we lost a number of key voter groups at this election.
But we must be careful not to draw the wrong conclusions. While it’s clear that Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-capitalist Momentum movement outmanoeuvred us on social media and activist recruitment, it also harnessed three big policy grievances: first, a roar from the millennial (under 40) voter cohort at a deepening economic and political alienation; second, a growing sense in the public sector that we are seemingly committed to ongoing