Friend or foe? The Conservative Party misjudges Nigel Farage at its peril
As they are busy engaging with Nigel Farage, are Conservatives misreading the very threat that he poses to their party.
The Conservative Party and Reform UK could still form a ‘regressive alliance’
Trusting opinion polls can burn — Ed Miliband learnt this the hard way in 2015 — but so can disregarding them. Hence the recent animated response to Reform UK’s upward polling trajectory. Progressives are taking the substantial vote share forecast for the latest incarnation of the Brexit Party, a joint project of Nigel Farage and Richard […]
Why Reform UK remains a mystery
It categorically rules out an electoral pact with the Conservatives, but opts to stand aside in the forthcoming Kingswood by-election. It claims to want to “destroy” the Conservatives, but its honorary president muses about one day leading the party. It threatens to unseat Conservative MPs, while simultaneously urging “red wallers” to defect. It boasts that […]
Put ‘asset’ Nigel Farage in the House of Lords, Conservative MP urges Rishi Sunak
A Conservative MP has suggested introducing Nigel Farage to the House of Lords. Jonathan Gullis, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and member of the New Conservatives, told GB News that the former UKIP leader would be an “asset across the Blue and the Red Wall”. “I’d love to see it, personally”, Gullis said when the […]
70 per cent of Conservative members believe Nigel Farage should be allowed to join party, survey finds
Over 70 per cent of Conservative members believe former UKIP leader Nigel Farage should be allowed to join their party if he were to seek membership, a survey has found. The survey, conducted by the Conservative Home website, shows 72.27 per cent of those asked say Farage should be admitted to the Conservative Party, should […]
Nigel Farage: Things I fought for are now ‘quite mainstream’ in the Conservative Party
Nigel Farage has said the things he fought for have become “quite mainstream within the Conservative Party”. The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader told ITV that his views had previously been characterised by senior Conservatives as “extreme”, “bad” and “wrong”. Mr Farage added: “Those things we have fought for have become quite mainstream within […]
Week-in-Review: Decoding the Nigel Farage playbook
The essential story of Nigel Farage’s political career can be told through the opponents he has outlasted and those whose careers he has prematurely terminated. Still today, the most totemic of Farage’s political victories remains that over David Cameron in 2016. Having panicked Cameron into holding an EU referendum, the PM was essentially marched out […]
Shapps hints at law change to protect ‘free speech’ after Nigel Farage’s Coutts account closure
Grant Shapps has condemned the “absolutely disgraceful” decision by Coutts to close Nigel Farage’s accounts. New documents, provided to The Telegraph newspaper by the former UKIP leader, appear to show the bank opted to close Mr Farage’s account after it was decided his views “do not align with our values”. A dossier detailing Mr Farage’s […]
How likely is a Nigel Farage-Boris Johnson alliance ‘to defend Brexit’?
The Boris Johnson psychodrama has developed in phases. From the three “Ps” — “Patersongate”, “Partygate” and the “Pincher affair” — which preceded the former PM’s defenestration last summer; to the botched rebellion over the Windsor Framework; and now his resignation as an MP, prompted by a letter from the privileges committee trailing its damning report […]
‘More revolutionary than Brexit’: Nigel Farage hints at new MP bid
Former UKIP and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage has again refused to rule out another attempt to become an MP, promising Sky News that if he did do so it would be on a far more “revolutionary agenda than just Brexit”. It comes as official data published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) […]
