What’s there to love? The corruption or the neglect?

Bless their little cotton socks, hard to love when the country is a complete mess

Brandreth is what's called a "clever fool". The inevitable consequence of a comfy life.

They don't feel loved? No surprise, but I guess they are aware enough to feel loathed, despised, reviled, hated?

Austerity NEVER ends well, I don’t know why people vote for it.

Cameron, elder statesman??? He dry bummed the country then left to put up his trotters!!

The Tories have never come back really from 97, 14 years, and their achievements have been very scant.

14 year's and the country is a wreck what do they expect ?

*This is easily the most entertaining interview you lot have done in weeks and weeks Matt, and I'm a Welsh Valleys communist. Cheers!* 👍😊🍺

He's dead right about John Major: he WAS a good man trying to do his best, and for this he was called a "grey man". He was in fact the only PM I can think of who genuinely gave a toss about the ordinary man, and for this reason introduced the Citizen Charter to give Joe Bloggs a counter-balance against a powerful Civil Service. Of course as soon as Major was out the CC faded away because no one cared a jot about citizens' rights. I'm a Labour voter btw.

Nor do the Disabled.

Don't underestimate how the people hate the Tories

Scandals involving little boys spring to mind.

They should be made to resign their seat and let the people decide if they want a change of party. They answer to the electorate not the other way round.

They'd be utterly mental to defect now, nobody likes a turncoat. The Tories are going down and I am very pleased about that.

⚠ *Rishi had best take heed, Gyles' predictions are better than Mystic Meg's!* 🧟‍♀

Whilst the Tories are worrying about not being loved, I know people who have to sustain toothaches with painkillers during work because even private dental care now has long waiting lists, and a student of mine is about to be running out of medication because they cannot afford the extortionary fees needed to see a psychiatrist on time. Both the dentists and the psychiatrists are saying this state of affairs will certainly improve in a few months' time, but will that be too late for my student? I used to, as most people who are not bothered by health issues directly, think about the Tories in the abstract. Now I think of them in relation to the experiences of those I know. How can I love them? How is that even possible? I notice that the consultant psychiatrist among them has left the party - I fully support him and wish him well.

And now a party political broadcast on behalf of the Gyles Brandreth party......

Won't someone please think of the tories 😂 😂 😂 😂

Unloved is a polite way of putting it 😂

Fascinating and very enjoyable.

The Lard Cameron reportedly has a personal fortune of £43m of which £10m appeared this year. His annual payment from public funds of c£117k per year for life, for being a (failed) PM, would alone satisfy the needs of many - but greed is part of the tory psyche. Truss gets the same, despite wrecking what was left of the economy after the tory disaster called brexshit.

I do enjoy listening to Gyles Brandreth

the Tories hope Tezza Coffey crosses the house so they get away from the smell

This man is truly insufferable.

Not fit to be in parliament in the first place “ They Don’t Feel Loved”, wake up you were not put in there to be loved but to do your job and represent your constituents, which you have failed miserably to do. so good riddance

They only have themselves to blame!

I met the G man in London Oxford Street 1999. He's one posh gi7 . Nice bloke. Friendly

Tories not wanted

Oh golly gosh, a single tear roles down my cheek 😂

I dont blame them, i woulden't want to be a tory M.P. specially after the next General Election, i would have thought sunak would have let his party leave at least with some dignity but it seem's not, looks like he intends to dragg those who does stay with him into the abyss with him...

Being 'cut'; sounds like Victorian "cancel culture"!

"Unloved" doesn't do it::"hated" comes close, and give a shout to "despised."

Really enjoyed this, thank you.

I didn’t realise Gyles Brandreth was a party whip. I always imagined whips to have more of the martinet about them.

Humanities reign as the dominant species is fast coming to an end. Vote for whoever you want, it'll bring the same result.

Brilliant story about the monastery 😂

CAn we just have a General Election.

We don't want them !!!!

Loved, woowed, overlooked, blandishments, promotion . What a sad, based and degenerate set of values to run a national government on. These main party's are void of principles..get rid of them.

Daughter called Aphra - is that after Aphra Behn? If so, what a wonderful choice.

Gyles Brandreth’s daughter is the Conservative candidate for my area Chester South and Eddisbury seat, historically she should be a shoo-in for the seat. However according to the latest local analysis it’s a tight call. Quote “The Conservative candidate hails from South London, has just opened a vets business with her husband there, and lost the Kingston and Surbiton seat for the Conservatives at the General election in 2019 and her seat on the Richmond Council in 2022. The Labour candidate has lived in Manchester for 30 years but in her day job has worked extensively on environmental projects in Cheshire, and has just picked up a national environment and sustainability pioneer award for her work in cutting emissions and encouraging more use of low-carbon forms of transport. Clearly, a Conservative MP is not a shoo-in and some may be tempted to vote tactically making life difficult for the Tories.” Noticeably from the literature received to-date, locally they have adopted the Grant Shapps mantra, of “promote yourself not the Conservative Party”.

Oh yeah, Gyles Brandreth, that well known political mastermind!

Unloved? Pure hatred from me.

Who's fault is that

Bad omen of Rishi sunak strikes on Junk party =Nasty Tories

Entertainingly told tripe. Anyone who tries to pretend that Sunak is anything other than a political inept is foolingeither himself or the listeners.

Gyles, don't make a fool of your self, its game over for crying out loud. Please, just take the hands of your friends and go away

Great

Times Radio has the crown of being the most pretentious radio station in the UK.

Let them go to the Lib Dems, Reform UK Ltd, or stand as Independents. Labour doesn't need any more of Sunak's useless trash. Elphicke is enough.

Gyles must be on some list

What a mess. The choice is Starmer or Sunak. Where are the real leaders?

they now got big mortgages with yrs to pay and we are the mugs paying their wages , bye bye torys

Alan Howarth stole my umbrella.

He's a wonderful, amusing gossip and chatterbox. A gift at a dinner party, I would imagine.

Brought the book thanks, that been said , seems Gyles is looking at the conservative with rose tinted glasses, however very informative informative

The Tories failed to create a vision for the country and where they wanted to end up as a party.

Minimal has to have a slogan, this time it's a " think tank" what a typically inane phrase.

Calling it Gove will be one who could likely cross

Gyles Brandreth is everything that the current Tories are not - gentle, amusing and decent…..

Awwww poor tory mps

I can just about forgive gyles his passed as a tory mp can't say the same of portillo

@04:30 Nice, but taxpayers money pays for all these games. Many taxpayers couldn't afford trips to the West Indies, sure they will love the fact that all this money is being used to bribe unhappy MP's.

Razor

john major did a bit of a coverup just because he couldn't handle it. it keeps being an interesting story with many victims

I would like to go out with Gyles Brandreth for a drink. I think he would be good company but I find his description of his colleagues pathetic. What sort of person would change political party on the grounds that they feel unloved? What sort of example is that setting? Should I quit my job on the grounds of feeling unloved?

Join the free trade group in North America. Much less hassle than being in the EU. Recover back about half of the economic growth lost by Brexit in the short term while keeping full sovereignty and independence. Seems like something that would be quite popular and politically feasible.

No one said the Tories were finnished, they said they wouldn't hold power for a long time. Which was exactly what happened. Nothing changes. Real change is rare. You wouldn't go back to the 90's and feel it was vastly different to now. Any time traveller from the 90's to now would expect more change than there has been. Not even a transient thing with superficial changes like fashion has changed much. You could look at a picture in the 60's and guess the year by the fashions. It is not an incongruity that Westminster might not have changed much.

Weak leadership, poor economic management and Brexit have dragged Britain out of the top 10 countries in a global index on good government. The decline of Britain under the Tories has been charted by the Chandler Global Index for Good Government (CGGI) which saw it take 11th place. At a time when Rishi Sunak has been under siege from his own try MPs, the UK’s place on the annual list was made worse by scores for “leadership and foresight” putting it in 20th place. It was also hit by coming 27th in “financial stewardship”. The findings come amid a report of an exodus by companies from the City of London.

Vote Reform but no ex Tories