In recent weeks, the Reform Party has not only seen defections from former Tory MP, Andrea Jenkyns and former Tory strategist Tim Montgomerie, but today it emerged the property tycoon and billionaire Nick Candy, defected from the Tories to Reform too, becoming its Treasurer.
And of course, all of this comes as Reform has overtaken the Labour Party in the polls, firmly in second place behind the Tories. The vote, in a two-party system, is split three ways.
Today, a new poll for Conservative Home has shown seven in ten party members think Reform poses the biggest challenge to the Tories at the next election. Well, vox populi vox dei, the voice of the people is the voice of God. The people are correct.
Reform poses a serious conundrum for the Tory Party. With a mere 121 seats in Parliament, the Conservatives cannot afford to have a split right-of-centre vote at the next election.
Jacob Rees-Mogg wants the Tory Party to be more conservative
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Yet this need not be so. Most Tory party members share the concerns and values of those in Reform. There was a failure to govern as Conservatives which Kemi Badenoch has admitted, so to win back voters the Tory Party needs to be conservative again.
This could open the way for some form of cooperation between the two parties. If each fights the other then the left will win and the first 5 months of a Labour government show how undesirable that is.
Kemi BadenochPAReform will not want to do a deal with the soggy left-leaning establishment Tory party that accepts the status quo, but one that stands up for our shared conservative values.
Fundamentally, the ambitions of the two parties are the same. Both parties want dramatically to decrease migration, to exercise our newfound sovereignty in a post-Brexit Britain, to align more closely with the US over the EU, to cut the size of the state, reduce taxes and unleash our latent growth.
If the two parties remain divided, the danger of the Labour super majority remains, but if we work together, according to current polling, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party could be destroyed in five years time.
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