Boris leadership 2019

You are reading a single comment by @Charlie_L and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

Charlie_L

We don't know exactly how many Conservative Party members there are because - unlike the UK's other parties - the Conservatives don't regularly release the figures.

The last time they did so was back in March 2018, when they put the figure at 124,000.

That's larger than some of the more pessimistic guesstimates, but way down on the peak of nearly three million that the party boasted in the early 1950s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395211

Brexiteer entryists may have pushed that number up, natural wastage has surely pushed it down.

•

Oliver Schick in reply to @Charlie_L

Thanks. The Guranaid seems to assume that it's 160,000:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/19/the-guardian-view-on-tory-leadership-and-the-constitution-a-crisis-in-the-making

I don't know where that figure comes from.

About

Avatar for Charlie_L @Charlie_L started