The smart move would be to immediately announce a Tory/Reform unity ticket, with Nigel Farage as the leader. This might stave off a Labour win, a win which would be disastrous for the UK.
Reform would go for that. But the Tories won’t. They are way too egotistical to consider such a thing.
If they have governed even marginally more like Reform’s platform (which is the platform that got them elected to their current majority when Boris Johnson was the prime minister), they would be even in the polls with Labor - the combined support of both parties is equal to the standing of Labor.
Instead they pretty much governed like Labour has in the past, and of course those policies failed - and they get to the take the blame for it and be voted out in favor of...Labour. What a mess they created for their country and for themselves.
Still some time for Farage to make the case that if the remaining Conservative supporters would come over to his candidates in voting where he has candidates on the ballot, they could avoid the massive gains Labour is poised to make with less of a split in the vote...and he would actually govern as a conservative.