Last week I was speaking to a senior member of Reform who had defected from the Tories. They were despondent. ‘It’s over,’ they said. ‘We can’t come back from here.’
Had they thought about returning to their old party, I asked. They laughed. ‘Kemi wouldn’t have me back. She hates us. She wants to make an example of us. I’m just going to have to fall on my sword.’
Kemi Badenoch does indeed hate the Reform carpetbaggers. And for good reason. They have split her party. Undermined, and almost destroyed, her leadership. And at best proven complicit in an increasingly vicious campaign
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