Tory candidates agree with all conclusions of ConservativeHome's General Election Review

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In the last 48 hours ConservativeHome invited Tory candidates to say whether they agreed or disagreed with the key conclusions of our General Election Review. 109 candidates took part. 60 candidates who had been unsuccessful and 49 who had been successfully elected. The two sets of candidates did not answer the questions in significantly different ways. Their responses are listed below with those most supported at the top of the list.

The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by-election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign

• Agree: 91% / Disagree 2%

The Conservative Party enjoys a massive financial advantage over Labour and the Liberal Democrats

• Agree 78% / Disagree 11%
  

Tax cuts twice reversed slides in the Conservatives' opinion poll rating

• Agree: 77% / Disagree 10%

The Big Society agenda is an exciting governing philosophy but it should never have been put at the heart of the Tory election campaign

• Agree: 71% / Disagree 15%

The Conservatives stopped losing on the economy but they didn't develop a strong or consistent economic message

• Agree: 70% / Disagree 17%

Team Cameron's success with the Murdoch empire could not compensate for continuing difficulties with the BBC

• Agree: 65% / Disagree 22%
  

This election was the Conservative party's best opportunity in a generation and with a strong campaign it should have been won

• Agree: 63% / Disagree 23%

The Tory silence on the electorate's second biggest issue, immigration, was like Manchester United leaving Wayne Rooney on the substitutes' bench

• Agree: 63% / Disagree 28%

The Conservatives never developed a strategic message for the General Election

• Agree: 62% / Disagree 22%

The Conservative Party fought a good ground war, winning more seats than the average national swing would suggest

• Agree: 55% / Disagree 22%

Having two young and broadly similar politicians at the top of the Party remains problematic

• Agree 51% / Disagree 44%
  

No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics

• Agree: 51% / Disagree 45%

Because the Conservatives didn't fight Brown with the same ferocity that Blair fought John Major, Labour survived electorally

• Agree 47% / Disagree 44%

Tim Montgomerie