He is destroying people with whom he should be working, because it is more important to him personally to win than it is to do what is right and save the nation.
Time and again, myself and others who want to build the party into a proper institution – which would more effectively support the leader’s own ambitions – have been driven out.
Rocking the boat publicly has personally been very discomfiting. Many Reform voters have not liked it and I most certainly did not want to damage the party. But I had no alternative.
He doesn’t have a good history of playing well with others, and even Reform’s consciously anti-democratic corporate structure would not be proof against people with their own mandates, platforms, and staffing budgets.
Tory MPs have refused to go and canvas for their candidate, the girlfriend of the disgraced Peter Bone.
Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe, like me, are natural conservatives. They would be the first to say that there should be no need to UKIP, Reform, Advance UK or Restore Britain. If we had an effective Conservative Party that remained committed to its core values then there would be no need for any of this.