I mean how else are the Conservatives supposed to rebrand from Boriswave and a decade plus of decline, just bringing in someone like Farage to lead them won't do.
But what if they all just "defect" to the "new" party and there you have it meet the new party, same as the old party, Farage will be gone after a term(if that) and it's back to business as normal.
He wanted a peerage and Tory leadership said no, so he defected
Conservative Party sources, including Chairman Kevin Hollinrake, alleged that Zahawi had "begged" for a peerage. He reportedly made multiple approaches to leader Kemi Badenoch’s team both in person and by phone in late 2025, specifically asking to be included in the political peerages list published on December 10.
The Rejection: The Tory leadership flatly rejected his request. A senior source stated he was "never going to happen" due to his 2023 dismissal from the cabinet for breaching the ministerial code regarding a nearly £5 million tax settlement with HMRC.
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Disgraced tax avoiding Nadhum Zahawi
Always good to remember that all he learned about honesty and integrity was when he worked for Jeffery Archer.
and theres this: https://www.threads.com/@lapsednun/post/DTaXumLAvZ4/media
Reassembling the top team in charge of the Boriswave is not a good look.
Reform voters are going to literally vote in the same people who were kicked out in 2024 LMAO
They kinda liked the really shit ones
I mean how else are the Conservatives supposed to rebrand from Boriswave and a decade plus of decline, just bringing in someone like Farage to lead them won't do.
But what if they all just "defect" to the "new" party and there you have it meet the new party, same as the old party, Farage will be gone after a term(if that) and it's back to business as normal.
The party of the (millionaire) people, folks.
I love how he's described as former chancellor, despite being chancellor for two months after Rishi Sunak resigned over how shit everything was
I mean I kind of get the point.
But "the rat" is joining the big ship leading the polls.
Not sure the Guardian would accept that language if were about a former refugee joining the Greens.
Bit of a false equivalence.
It's not logical. A rat flees a sinking ship. The greens have grown exponentially.
All you needed to do is say he joined the greens, for the comparison to work, or use Corbyn, if he were still in Labour.
So too have Reform, so I don't understand the problem.
Unsure how this is a false equivalence tbh
The idea is to smear tory and reform MPs across both parties to end up with a right wing government and right wing opposition.
They are not competing.
It wouldn't end up like that, but they might end up in bed together...
He wanted a peerage and Tory leadership said no, so he defected
Conservative Party sources, including Chairman Kevin Hollinrake, alleged that Zahawi had "begged" for a peerage. He reportedly made multiple approaches to leader Kemi Badenoch’s team both in person and by phone in late 2025, specifically asking to be included in the political peerages list published on December 10.
The Rejection: The Tory leadership flatly rejected his request. A senior source stated he was "never going to happen" due to his 2023 dismissal from the cabinet for breaching the ministerial code regarding a nearly £5 million tax settlement with HMRC.