Is Nigel Farage the new, improved Roy Jenkins? Is he breaking the mould of British politics in the way the SDP tried to 40 years ago?
Certainly the two party system is under strain, with a new YouGov poll showing Reform in the lead for the first time and the Tories in third place.
YouGov has Reform on 25 per cent, Labour on 24 per cent and we’re on 21 per cent of the popular vote.
This may be within the margin of error, but one thing is clear, Reform is now a force to be reckoned with.
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The poll also reveals something perhaps even more telling. One in five Tory voters from the last election would now vote for Nigel.
Reform is stealing the Conservative Party’s clothes. It has various ideas from which the Tories ought to be drawing inspiration.
On immigration, both legal and illegal, in much needed Net Zero migration, as well as on the economy, on law and order, and, of course, on the crazy Net Zero plans.
The last election shows that the British voter is out of love with the status quo.
There’s no enthusiasm for Sir Keir, the Reverend Starmer’s Labour Party, as shown by its low vote share. And the last six months have made the socialists even less popular.
Labour’s majority may be huge, but it’s on a surprisingly small share of the vote.
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The reason it achieved such a big majority was because of the split right leaning vote.
Yet if the right remains split, it could potentially do the same again in 2029.
So what’s the solution? In a first past the post electoral system, each wing of politics needs to unite, otherwise it will lose.
As I covered last year at Tory party conference, a majority of Conservative members support a Tory-Reform pact.
Indeed, 70 per cent of Tory voters support close relations with Nigel Farage.
One poll has Reform UK winning 114 seats on current trends, and this is hugely impressive, considering it’s only got five seats at the moment. But it isn’t remotely close to majority, where you need about 325.
If we enter the next election in this three horse race without a pact, we may well see Labour keep its majority, and just look how badly they’re governing.
It’s the one outcome neither the Tories nor Reform want.
But if a pact were made, it could be devastating for the socialists, wiping out its majority and paving the way for a truly Conservative coalition, a government that could do things as Trump is showing us it can be done. We don’t always have to be ruled by the blob.
Our members want the same things. We have the same vision for the future of the UK, and we both want the Labour Party out.
It’s time to give the people what they want: a Tory-Reform, non-aggression pact.