"One is too many and 1,000 never enough. Addiction is a tricky business. What starts as fun inevitably, insidiously, tears away the soul. And there are signs that Nigel Farage's press conference habit is getting out of control. He started off at one a week. Then his narcissistic need craved more and more attention. So he upped it to two or three a week. Each time the buzz got less. He was mainlining more and more just to try to stand still."
"Malc had just signed a card renouncing his peerage, when every journalist in the room started looking at their phones. There was breaking news. Kemi Badenoch had announced she was sacking Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet and the Tory party. Here was a story of our times. One that had it all. Treachery and stupidity. The Tory party at its very best. Kemi's message was simple. I never loved you anyway."
Nigel Farage escalates his press conferences from weekly events to multiple daily appearances, portrayed as an addictive craving for attention. His unveiling of Malcolm Offord was interrupted by breaking news: Kemi Badenoch sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet and the Conservative Party. Jenrick had been suspected of negotiating a defection to Farage. Badenoch's pre-emptive dismissal cited a damaging resignation speech as the tipping point. The episode frames Conservative infighting as betrayal and spectacle, highlighting Jenrick's perceived opportunism and Farage's hunger for political drama and publicity. The language uses vivid metaphors equating political ambition to addiction.
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