In a momentum-gaining week for Reform things are only getting better for Nigel Farage. The bookies are betting on Reform’s leader…
Farage is now the favourite with Ladbrokes to be next PM after Starmer for the first time ever. A flurry of bets on Reform winning the most seats at the next election have cut those odds from 16/1 to only 9/4. Pushing Farage to the top of the rankings for next resident of No 10…
The tables are now:
Farage and Elon Musk were chatting on X yesterday about upcoming electoral opportunities for Reform. All eyes on the locals…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”