A recent survey from the Popular Conservatism group has revealed 53% of Conservative Party member support merging with Reform, while a striking 70% advocate for a closer relationship between the two parties. The numbers suggest that a large portion of the Tory base sees synergy with Reform as the best way forward. Another poll pointing to who the real LOTO is…
The realisation that Reform’s momentum is far from waning pushed the PopCon lot to hold a conference event posing the question: how do you solve a problem like Reform? The conclusion seemed to be the Tories need to find a way to reunite the right to fend off a growing Reform Party. As Annunziata Rees-Mogg succinctly put it, “We failed to deliver on being Conservative.” A return to common sense policies and proper Tory values, with unity behind a leader being essential. Slightly ironic, given that even those in PopCon can’t agree on a single candidate themselves…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”