Carol Vorderman calls for tactical voting to reduce Tories to 'rubble'

Carol Vorderman has urged voters to turn the Tories to "rubble" and knock them into third place.

The TV star turned campaigner said of the Conservative Party : "They just lie and lie and gaslight." She called on Brits to vote tactically and punish the Government for economic failure, PPE profiteering and Partygate.

The presenter said she hopes Keir Starmer is "ruthless" if he becomes PM. Carol is a key backer of the stopthetories.vote campaign, which wants to inflict the heaviest losses possible on Rishi Sunak and co.

She said: “It’s not just tactical voting. It is coordinated tactical voting... This is a statistical way of co-ordinated tactical voting in order to reduce them to rubble.”

The Countdown legend went on: “I would like them to go under the Lib Dems.” Asked why she's so hostile to the Tories, Carol, 63, said: “Because of the last 14 years and the lies, particularly since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.”

She hit out at Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak

She reeled off a list of Tory scandals, including the so-called VIP lane for PPE Covid contracts which enriched Conservatives supporters.

Carol said: “That was the ultimate in profiteering and people don’t forget that.”

The presenter said she was appalled by the case of former Tory peer Michelle Mone, who admitted lying about her links to PPE Medro - which was awarded millions of pounds during the pandemic.

She said: “I think it is terrible, but she isn’t alone.” Partygate, which was exposed by The Mirror, is another reason to despatch the Tories to the political wilderness, Carol added.

She said: “We were locked in our houses and we had to obey the rules. It wasn’t just Partygate, it was all the hiding of Partygate, it was all the lying of Partygate.

“It was even Johnson who had two police fines lying to Parliament and saying he hadn’t lied to Parliament.” On the separate Tory scandal of senior party figures betting on the election date, she said: “It’s unimaginable.

“I think they’re so privileged and so detached and they have been so cosetted by a right wing media that they cannot comprehend the visceral emotion that the public feel towards them. This is the only time in five years that we have a chance to tell them what we really think. So that’s why I want to eviscerate them.”

Asked if she believed the Conservative Government had acted in a corrupt way, she replied: “Patently so.” Carol said the Tories had become “progressively worse” over the years after going “off the rails” with Brexit.

She said: “The majority of people who voted for Brexit now say they wouldn’t if it was put to them again.” Carol wouldn't say how she'll vote, but she was positive about Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and plans for a Covid corruption commissioner.

“I’d love that job!” she joked, but added: “I don’t think I have the experience in police work and so on that would be necessary.” And describing Keir Starmer she said: “He does give me hope.

“I am politically independent, by the way. I have voted for everybody in my time: Green, Lib Dem, Tory, Labour. I hope he is ruthless.”

She added: “I think his moral compass comes from a much better place than Sunak, Truss, Johnson, Cameron and all the others. "I think he understands [people from] normal backgrounds far more than the rest of them.”