The wheels on the Reform bus are definitely lose and in danger of coming off as the net closes on Farage. Even his senior people are driving the narrative in different directions and Bull saying he should take a break.
Interesting how Farage spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV last week claimed he never once said he wanted to destroy the Tory Party. Zia Yusuf has tweeted that “Reform was built to destroy the Tory Party and that it is a necessary precondition for Britain to flourish”.
I seem to recall that Reform was “built” to campaign against Covid lockdowns and to reform aspects of the establishment such as the BBC and the House of Lords. But then, Yusuf who only came on board in 2024, has a habit of rewriting the past. According to him, senior figures in Reform barely knew Nathan Gill despite him having worked closely with Farage for years in the EU and was leader of Reform in Wales. Nothing to see here.
Yusuf seems bent on a suicidal mission were Reform ever to win a substantial number of Parliamentary seats but not enough for majority government. Who would want to work with them other than the Tories? Their only consistent ally is Jim Shannon of the DUP.
And now Yusuf has admitted that even his own party don’t deem him suitable to stand for a Westminster seat despite his position as “Shadow” Home Secretary. My guess is he wanted to stand in the first by-election to take place post-GE, in Runcorn and Helsby in May 2025. Farage chose Sarah Pochin instead who won by a whisker. A month later Yusuf resigned, the day after Pochin called, at PMQs, for the burqa to be banned, a question he described as dumb and not Reform policy.
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