![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/new-ukip-style-party-could-form-to-nick-tory-votes-over-migrant-crisis/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000314818465_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg&description=The Conservatives risk losing "dozens" of seats at the next general election if ministers do not take action over the migrants' crisis because of the threat of a new Ukip-style party, a senior Tory has said. Craig Mackinlay, MP for South Thanet, in Kent, who sits on the board of the European Research Group of Conservative MPs in Parliament, warned that a Nigel Farage-style party could pick up votes from Tory voters frustrated about government inaction. He told Friday's Chopper's Politics podcast: "Unless we get this solved to people's satisfaction, my real worry is that we could see some sort of challenger Right of centre party coming forward, nicking a few of our votes." Mr Mackinlay, one of the original founders of the UK Independence Party more than 30 years ago, said that for the Tories "literally dozens' of seats - 'enough to lose the majority" - are now at risk. He added: "The threat is that they take a predominant number of votes from Conservative Party. "I would say that 70 per cent, 80 per cent of the voters that migrated to Ukip were Conservative voters and they are voters that we dare not lose, particularly in those very tight seats. "After Boris had delivered Brexit in the 2019 election, [we thought] that fringe group sitting out to our Right were in the tomb and the coffin was sealed and gone forever. But we would be naive to think that."){kind=link}
Craig Mackinlay tells Chopper’s Politics podcast that Conservatives risk losing dozens of seats unless ministers take action over crossings
The Conservatives risk losing “dozens” of seats at the next general election if ministers do not take action over the migrants’ crisis because of the threat of a new Ukip-style party, a senior Tory has said.
Craig Mackinlay, MP for South Thanet, in Kent, who sits on the board of the European Research Group of Conservative MPs in Parliament, warned that a Nigel Farage-style party could pick up votes from Tory voters frustrated about government inaction.
He told Friday’s Chopper’s Politics podcast: “Unless we get this solved to people’s satisfaction, my real worry is that we could see some sort of challenger Right of centre party coming forward, nicking a few of our votes.”
Mr Mackinlay, one of the original founders of the UK Independence Party more than 30 years ago, said that for the Tories “literally dozens” of seats – “enough to lose the majority” – are now at risk.