A senior Fine Gael TD has demanded that Simon Harris, the new Taoiseach drop proposals to legalise hate speech, renounce plans to sell alcohol late at night, and steer Fine Gael away from “left wing” ideas, reports RTE.
Former Minister Michael Ring claimed that Fine Gael has been “too left for too long” and threatened to pay a heavy price in the next election if he doesn’t bring the party back to more traditional principles.
He said on RTÉ’s This Week that Mr. Harris has a “very difficult job ahead” and that he need to “do what Enda Kenny did,” which is to tour the nation speaking with the organisation’s grassroots, reports RTE.
Fine Gael, he added, needed to get back to its roots.
“We are not a left wing party, we are a centre party and Fine Gael has to move back into the centre again, and more to the right. We need to go back to core issues, law and order, we need to be doing more on law and order,” he said, reports RTE.
“We need to go back to small businesses and farmers and we need to forget about a lot of these social issues we have been raising over the last few years that have been annoying people and upsetting people,” he added, reports RTE.
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