Tory MPs think about Farage alliance to deal with celebration risk

Dec 10, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Tory MPs think about Farage alliance to deal with celebration risk

Some MPs are urging Rishi Sunak to do a cope with the previous Brexit Party chief, who is because of return from Australia after showing in I’m A Celebrity…

Reform is hovering at round eight per cent within the polls, however it’s thought a lot of this assist comes from disgruntled Tory
voters who might be satisfied to modify again.

A survey by WeSuppose discovered 67 per cent of Reform supporters can be extra more likely to vote Conservative if Mr Farage joined.

Only seven per cent of these requested stated they’d be much less possible and 25 per cent stated it could make no distinction.

But 38 per cent of Labour voters say they’d be even much less more likely to vote Tory – with simply 11 per cent saying they’d be extra possible to take action.

Many Conservative MPs say the choice by the Brexit Party to not stand candidates in seats they have been defending within the 2019 basic election contributed to their overwhelming victory.

The Brexit Party modified its identify to Reform UK a yr later.

A senior Tory stated: “I’d love to see Farage. He should definitely be in the House of Lords. There should have been a great coming together after Brexit.”

Another stated: “We should probably do a deal. We should allow him into the party if there’s a constituency that wants to select him.”

A Red Wall MP stated: “I would definitely welcome Nigel into the party.”

But the 2019-intake Tory added: “If he wants to challenge us outside the party, well, bring it on because he’s
not managed to win a seat yet.”

Reform could have influenced the end in current high-profile by-elections, when Labour took Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth after massive voting swings on the expense of the Tories.

In each constituencies, the Reform and Conservative vote mixed would have been sufficient to beat Sir Keir Starmer’s candidates.

Speaking on I’m A Celebrity…Gat Me Out Of Here!, Mr Farage prompt he might someday rejoin the Tories, which he left in 1992 – however prompt it could be because the chief.

He stated: “There is a lot of speculation after they lose the next election, maybe Nigel becomes leader of the Tory party one day, so there’s a lot of chatter about whether it is going to happen – I have no idea.

“The important thing is to say this – never say never.”