Reform is not rescue charity for panicky Tory MPs, Farage says

BBC ^ | Jan 18 | BBC

[RandFan]

Nigel Farage has insisted Reform UK will not become the Conservative Party 2.0 following the defection of former senior Tory Robert Jenrick.

Writing in the Telegraph, external, the party's leader said Reform "is not a rescue charity for every panicky Tory MP" and any potential defectors would have to be prepared to admit publicly that the previous Conservative government "broke the country".

Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice told the BBC that Jenrick was "a great new asset" who brought ministerial experience.

However, with around 20 former Conservative MPs joining the party in recent months, critics have argued Reform is becoming a home for failed Tories rather than a new force in British politics.

Farage has said his party will not accept any more defectors after local elections are held on 7 May.

"Any Conservative MP who still clings to the hope that their party can recover and waits until May 8 to try to leave the sinking ship does not understand how rapidly things are changing out in the country," he wrote in the Telegraph.

"Trying to use Reform as a lifeboat to save their own political skins will not wash. We have no interest in rescuing political failures."

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[RandFan]

Nice move. No CINOs jumping ship after May

[SharpRightTurn]

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