On Penny Mordaunt’s leadership campaign, a contentious Tory volunteer who believed Boris Johnson had grown too “woke” has been active.
On US television, Craig Dillon criticized the prime minister and claimed that he had been overly influenced by activists for the environment like Greta Thunberg.
The digital marketing specialist, who spoke to Fox News under the alias Thomas Corbett-Dillon, said: “It is mayhem, it truly is.” To be the British Trump, we chose Boris. He was supposed to deliver Brexit, shake up the system, and take the establishment to task, but he was rapidly drawn into the globalist agenda.
He was a Conservative who forgot it. He became very woke and went hard on confinement and immunizations. He wholeheartedly endorsed Greta Thunberg’s notion that “the world is ending,” which was not what Conservative voters wanted.
He continued: ‘Boris was elected by a very large group of working class voters, it is the first time they have voted for a Conservative politician and these people want simple things: more jobs, lower tax, tough on crime, tough on the border and tough on our enemy. people on the ground and realised this was not the leader for them any more.’
Miss Mordaunt has faced scrutiny over her record on trans rights.
‘But he got sucked into this globalist agenda that just was not what the people wanted so eventually the MPs started listening to the
Attorney General Suella Braverman, who is backing Liz Truss after being knocked out of the race herself, was asked in an interview at the weekend whether Miss Mordaunt was ‘too woke’ to lead the Conservative Party. She replied: ‘My view of Penny is that she is woke. Yes.’
The Daily Mail understands that Mr Dillon’s work for Miss Mordaunt included producing social media content.
A spokesman for Miss Mordaunt said: ‘This individual is no longer involved in the campaign.’