Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has revealed that Nigel Farage is positioning himself as Boris Johnson’s political successor, following a recent meeting with the Reform UK leader.
The revelation comes as Dorries releases her new book “Downfall”, which details her theories about the Conservative Party’s current state and Boris Johnson’s departure from politics.
Speaking to GB News, Dorries recounted how Farage told her “I’m Boris now,” a comment which “caused them both to giggle.”
The former MP, who resigned in August 2023 after criticising then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, shared that Farage expressed his intention to “destroy the Conservative Party” during their conversation last week.
Nadine Dorries said Farage is positioning himself to be the next Boris Johnson
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She told GB News: “It’s really interesting because I met with Nigel Farage last week and he said to me ‘I’m Boris now’ which we had a giggle about.
“He also said to me, I’m going to destroy the Conservative Party. I didn’t laugh because we’ve got 121 MPs, the Liberal Democrats have got over 70 MPs.
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“There’s a huge problem now at the moment, which I don’t think many people realise and that is that Labour have completely messed up.
“They are going to be a one term party government. That is, we know that now they are not going to be elected again.
“They’ve they targeted one group after another, whether it’s pensioners or farmers, tax rises, small businesses, they’ve just they’ve damaged too many people too fast.
“The Conservative Party can go one way or the other. It can die now or it can it can thrive. And the problem is because Boris has left the political stage, there is a vacuum which Nigel is filling and Reform UK organised on a regional level.
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The ally of Boris Johnson maintains that Reform UK’s growing success represents a serious threat to traditional Conservative strongholds.
She issued a stark warning to her fellow Conservatives, and told them not to be “so naive” in thinking that lost voters would return to them.
She added: “They’re doing very well and many Conservative MPs believe that all we have to do is sit back and it will be the Conservatives for the taking, because all of those people who went to the Liberal Democrats and went to Labour will come back to them.
“Well, here’s a fact, that when you tell Conservative MPs they’re a bit fish-mouthed about.
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“We have constituencies which have had Conservative MPs for a considerable time.
“This time just months ago they turned to Labour.
“Now Reform UK is polling more than the Labour MP’s and the Conservative Party, despite the fact that it’s been Conservative and Labour historically.I don’t know what’s going to happen.
“You can’t look a week ahead, let alone five years ahead. But I think it’s naive and basically stupid of Conservative MPs to think this.”