Keir Starmer’s reaction to Kemi sacking Jenrick is in. He brands her “weak” for only just doing so:
“My question is: why did it take so long? Jenrick has been making toxic comments to try and divide our country for months, and months, and months, but it’s only now, when he’s on the verge of defecting to Reform, that Badenoch gets around to sacking him. So, that’s weakness on her part. There’s a bigger story here, because we’re seeing a flood of Tory politicians, ex-politicians, going across to Reform because they know that the Tory Party is a sinking ship.”
Pushing Jenrick before he jumps…
The Chagos row is escalating today as five Reform MPs have written two separate letters to the Leader of the Commons Alan Campbell and Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Lord True, turning fire on both Labour and the Tories. There was procedural confusion in the Lords on Monday when some peers apparently tried to vote down the whole Chagos Bill, and the government is delaying the return of the Bill to the Commons…
Reform writes:
“Is the real reason for the Government’s refusal to give a new date for the consideration of Lords Amendments that they lost four votes in the Lords at Report Stage, and that they refused to give an extra day of Committee, because they knew more debate would jeopardise this disastrous deal?…Better still, given the sheer shambles which have been on display regarding this disastrous Bill, will the government now consider dropping this Bill until there has been proper consultation with the Chagossian community?”
Read both letters below:
Continue reading “EXC: Reform Blasts Chagos Bedlam in Parliament In Tough Intervention”
Tory Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake said he would form a coalition with Reform over the LibDems. You’d hope so…
Hollinrake was on the Daily T podcast with Reform’s Tim Montgomerie and insisted that was his preference “if there was no other choice at all.” Badenoch is allegedly “not interested in a coalition”…
The party chairman said the main issue today was migration: “Certainly Tim and I are far more closely aligned in terms of migration. That’s the reality.” Montgomerie for his part went further:
“There are parts of northern England, the Red Wall seats, parts of Wales, colliery communities and parts of Scotland that are never going to vote Conservative. Reform can reach parts of the electorate that the Conservatives just can’t. There are probably southern seats Reform cannot win that only the Conservatives can win. Let the British people decide. I think Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage could form a strong coalition together where they agree on the key issues. Immigration is the biggest challenge facing this country. What we don’t know is how bad the economy is going to be.”
Something weighing heavily on right-of-centre minds in SW1…
Tory members have just been informed:
“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to introduce a small increase of £2 in membership fees from 05 January 2026.”
The previous fee was £39 annually. Already hiked by 56% in 2022…
CCHQ is moving to a new building closer to Victoria after it ends the £1 million per annum lease on Matthew Parker Street. The party goes on to justify its fee increase:
“Membership fees go towards exciting new projects like:
Developing a new Membership Portal to allow members to self-serve and get the most out of their Party membership.
Implementing digital membership cards for new, easy, and practical way to access your card as well as the continuation of the popular physical cards.
Launching a new campaigning app to enable our activists across the country to campaign more easily and effectively.”
Digital Tory ID…
Kemi Badenoch is in Westminster to unveil her plans for a full statutory inquiry into rape gangs, which she’s demanding Labour accepts. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp is joining her. Watch live below…
It’s been six months since Starmer said he would hold an inquiry…
The majority of Tory members think Farage will be the next Prime Minister, according to ConHome‘s latest survey. Not what LOTO wants to hear…
A whopping 38.1% of members think it’s likely that the Reform leader will take the keys to Downing Street in 2028/29, while 15.8% say that is “highly likely”. Just 43.3% think that it is “unlikely“. A quarter believe Farage will form a government on his own, while 24% think that it will be via a Reform/Tory coalition. Meanwhile the Tories’ internal polling puts them on just 14 seats…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
