If he defected from Conservative to the UKIP, I hope he won’t be a UINO (UKIP in name only)!
It’s a real risk when you’re the rising star to get the castoffs you beat tagging along.
I realized as a teen back when I worked retail. A new manager at the store I worked was a manager at the old store that was run out of town by my store. Success can be the seeds of destruction if you don’t plan carefully.