Nigel Farage has announced he will unveil Reform’s Shadow Cabinet in a “few days’ time“. Reports emerged earlier this month that Robert Jenrick will get the Shadow Chancellor brief, with Zia Yusuf taking home affairs, and Tice getting business and energy. Before the weekend, Guido heard rumours of Suella getting education. As reported in Guido Whispers…
He added that a general election “could come more quickly” than 2027, and opened the candidate application portal this afternoon. Starmer is imploding, stranger things have happened…
Nigel Farage has welcomed Carol Vorderman’s intention (or threat) to “enter the political fight” this year. And thrown down the gauntlet for her to stand against him in his Clacton constituency…
Asked by Guido’s News Editor Max Young for his response to Vorderman’s attack in the Telegraph yesterday, the Reform leader said:
“I’m looking forward to it, marvellous. Do you know, people can abuse me all they like. I never, ever bother to return the compliment. I might’ve teased people over the years for being ‘damp rags’, but I’ve never actually realy verbally assaulted or abused anybody. I’m not going to start now. It’s sad. But hey, bring it on. Come and stand in Clacton. We will look forward to seeing you.”
Carol for Clacton? The countdown is on…
The plan:
All to be paid for by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap…
Reform is doing a big rally for veterans in Cannon Street, London. Wine and beer is already available to those in attendance…
Nigel Farage is with Robert Jenrick in the freshly-minted Reform MP’s constituency of Newark. They’ll be holding a ‘major’ rally, with party chairman David Bull and Lee Anderson also speaking. Jenrick has said he will not be holding a by-election in his seat. Wonder how many old faces he will see…
The Mirror has printed an idiotic “exclusive” in which a little-known backbench Labour MP accused Nigel Farage “of peddling National Front-style discrimination” with the Reform Party slogan “British jobs for British workers.” Encompassing all manner of reforms including scrapping pointless extra ‘protections’ which generate tribunals…
Imran Hussain MP said of the policy:
“Saying employers should be allowed to pick and choose based on who is ‘British-born’ sounds like a political slogan from the National Front in the 1970s. This kind of thinking has no place in modern Britain, and we should call it out for exactly what it is.”
Gordon Brown will be shocked to discover he’s been a member of the ‘fash for 15 years. A self-own there…
Speaking on the Labour chaos over the last few weeks, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told The Guardian:
“You call it a sh*tshow, I say it’s unforgivable…It does look to people outside that we’re more interested in ourselves and less interested in preventing chaos. […] We’ve not done enough, and this has got to be the moment of reckoning where we say not just what are we here for, but who are we here for?”