TORONTO - Opposition Leader Tim Hudak is making a frank admission about what went wrong for the Progressive Conservatives in last fall's election.

Hudak didn't mention the controversial "foreign workers" issue that dogged his campaign from the get-go, but he says he would have done things differently.

The leader, who faces a leadership review next month, acknowledged that the Tories failed to talk about the kind of positive change that they want to bring to Ontario.

Hudak says the party locked into a strategy last spring around pocketbook issues and weren't nimble enough to adjust when other issues -- like the European debt crisis -- emerged.

He says if had the chance to do it again, he would have talked more about jobs and the debt crisis -- a lesson he says he learned the hard way.

The Tories did end up with more seats after the Oct. 6 vote, but failed to break into seat-rich Toronto.