# Conservative Leader Defends Party Poll Ratings and Criticizes Labour

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2112480797370249216
- Source account: [@SkyNews](https://x.com/SkyNews)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 2026-10-21
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour) Uh, so the party's poll ratings are improving, but it's still below your showing at the last general election.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=6) Today, actually, a poll only shows that the public only just see you as the main opposition. Um, your personal ratings are higher. Are you worried that even though voters may be happy with you, you haven't been able to shift that, uh, onto the party, and many see the Conservatives still as a toxic brand?

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=24) Well, Serena, I remember, uh, when you first started interviewing me, and you were saying the Conservative Party wasn't even going to exist in a few months' time.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=31) So, uh, uh, forgive me if I take the analysis that you've just given today with a pinch of salt.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=46) The f- the fact is that we lost, uh, uh, office just two years ago, a historic defeat.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=53) Labour came in with a landslide, and they've already lost a prime minister.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=58) This goes to show that the problems that our country, uh, is currently experiencing go well beyond any p- p- p- uh, uh, specific political party's problems. We can see that they go well beyond our borders too.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=69) Look at what's happening in France. Look at what's happening in, in, in Germany.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=73) The West has a problem. We have been living outside our means, spending too much on welfare, not enough on defense.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=81) We have not been paying attention to what other countries, uh, like Iran and Russia and perhaps China have been doing or maybe been complacent.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=88) We're not doing that anymore, and what I want the public to know is that when an election is called, whether it's in December or January or May or in twenty twenty-nine, we are the only credible alternative to a government that has no idea how to fix those problems.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=103) This goes well beyond winning elections.

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0mXQDWivVFai/en/conservative-leader-defends-party-poll-ratings-and-criticizes-labour?t=114) Of course, we need to win elections, but many of the previous governments, including Keir Starmer's and Andy Burnham's too, will realize that winning an election is just the beginning. How you govern and your pol-