All these Reform defections are short term gains which undermine their core selling point - which is change.
Why would the country elect a party full of all the same washed-up, scandal-hit former Tory ministers they just kicked out of office?
Opens the space for both a Labour and Tory recovery
Either guys who were too poor at the job, they were quickly binned, like Zahawi, or those that just weren’t good enough for the most minor of minor government posts.
The barrel scrapings of 14 years of chaos.
Jan 15, 2026 12:44