Top Tories: hard Brexit stance could lose us next election

Ex-ministers reject ‘Ukip-lite’ views and urge Theresa May to spell out her EU strategyThe Tory party could lose the next general election if Theresa May alienates its core of moderate supporters by imitating Ukip and pushing through a hard Brexit, a group of former Conservative ministers and MPs says.The warning to the prime minister from the party’s senior ranks comes after Tory voters turned to the pro-EU Lib Dems in droves in Thursday’s Richmond Park byelection, deliv