Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg attack ‘left-wing extremists’ and ‘Davos man’ at launch of new Tory group – as it happened

Speakers at the PopCons' event in London attacked the ECHR, WHO, Davos attendees, anti-capitalists' and wokery'. This live blog is closed

In his interview with Times Radio earlier today, Labour's leader Keir Starmer has said he expects the Conservative party to go low" during the forthcoming election campaign, because they aren't in a position to defend their record in government, but said he would fight fire with fire".

He told Kate McCann:

I'm going to be up against an opponent, a Conservative party, that the prime minister can't go to the country on their record, they can't say, look, we've delivered all these brilliant things over 14 years. Vote us back in to keep delivering. They couldn't do that with a straight face.

They can't go to the country saying, we've got great leadership because they burned through five prime ministers. And the chop and change is a laughing stock across the world.

I'm motivated and interested by ideas. That's why I was in Ukip and not the Conservative party. I suspect I would agree with a lot of what is said on the platform this morning, but none of it is going to be Conservative manifesto policy.

And that's really the point here. Whilst there were some big names like Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg - I saw Priti Patel coming into the audience earlier - they are a very small minority within the parliamentary Conservative party.