"Predicting that May's Scottish, Welsh and English council elections would bring a collapse in support for the two biggest parties in British politics, Farage said the Tories were finished as a national party. "We've replaced the old fuddy-duddy existing Conservative Party with a new force on the centre-right, that's got a bit more energy, a bit more enthusiasm, a little bit more fire," he said. When Jenrick jumped ship in mid-January, Farage had also promised a mysterious Labour defection was imminent."
"One month on, he was asked whether he was still expecting a Labour figure to join Reform and responded: "There are going to be several." He added: "I haven't got a magic wand. Things don't always happen immediately, but it will happen." The next electoral test will be the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester on Thursday 26 February, with Farage hoping his candidate Matthew Goodwin could win the party's ninth parliamentary seat."
"Farage now has more of former prime minister Liz Truss's cabinet in his party than Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has in her current shadow cabinet. But when asked by the BBC's Nick Robinson on Radio 4's Political Thinking if this meant Reform was morphing into the latest version of the Conservatives, Farage said it was "no surprise" MPs were choosing to jump ship."
Nigel Farage says Reform UK is supplanting the traditional Conservative Party as senior Conservatives and former cabinet members defect to Reform. Senior Conservatives including Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Danny Kruger and former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi have joined Reform. Farage claims more of Liz Truss's cabinet now sit in Reform than Kemi Badenoch has in her shadow cabinet. Farage predicts May council elections will collapse support for the two biggest parties and declared the Tories finished as a national party. Farage expects several Labour figures to defect and is contesting the Gorton and Denton by-election with candidate Matthew Goodwin.
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