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The question I get asked, and ask myself, with increasing frequency: why am I still a member of the Conservative Party? As we discussed Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform, Mark Littlewood gave his reasons for staying in the Tory tribe, and I tried - however feebly - to give mine.

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