“He [Jenrick] brings what people say we haven’t got, which is ministerial experience,” he says.
The Tories should stick to their strategy of firing at Labour, as the job of the official opposition. We know Reform want a fight, because it’s in their game plan. Perhaps don’t give them one. It’s one they want, and according to Arron Banks, they need.
“It’s very simple, you arrest him, remove his citizenship and remove him back to Egypt,” he says.
If Reform are serious about closing the deal with the British electorate, the wiser ones could do worse than heed the warning: there are British voters who might be tempted by Reform UK, who are not huge supporters of everything Trump says.
The Reform UK Deputy Leader says the navy would not sink boats.
It is legitimate to ask, that in order to support the most vulnerable (nobody is advocating scrapping all welfare) and to move people into work, are Reform in favour of cutting the welfare budget dramatically, and how? It’s not a loaded question it’s a genuinely fair one given their polling.
What we have seen in recent days have been very clear examples of the vulnerabilities of both the centre-left and the populist right. These are vulnerabilities that a smart centre-right party ought to be able to exploit.
The Reform UK Deputy Leader adds that “we had a very simple slogan that seemed to work, drill Scotland, drill.”
Even the smallest of suggested UK EU reforms – reforms which make it easier for businesses to trade and create wealth – are characterised as being a betrayal; the event is described as a “surrender summit” – it makes the Tories look backward-facing and dogmatic.
“I see them all in Parliament…and I get on with them [Conservative MPs], and of course you bump into each other..and talk to each other,” he says.
The Reform UK deputy leader says the objective is a lasting peace with security guarantees and implies Farage has changed his view that Putin was “provoked” to invade Ukraine.
The Prime Minister is fed up with attacks from parliamentarians who never say how they themselves would balance the books.
Labour ministers who until recently yearned to rejoin the European Union now proclaim their devotion to the United Kingdom.
Reform’s Deputy Leader appears to suggest there is now way back for Lowe after having the whip withdrawn.
Thatcherism was never the politics of protest. It was the politics of government, grounded in ideas strong enough not only to win power, but to sustain it once won.