Nadhim Zahawi, former chancellor, joins Reform
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Trickle of defections will become a flood |
Nadhim Zahawi will not be the last former cabinet minister to defect to Reform. As long as Nigel Farage looks as if he might be prime minister, I think the trickle of Conservative defections will become a flood. The Tories are responding in the only way they can, branding Zahawi a "has-been", but he was the future once – he was a good communicator as vaccines minister – and now he will have an afterlife advising Reform candidates on how to run a government. Zahawi wasn't a great communicator at his news conference, telling Tony Diver of the Telegraph he had asked a "really stupid question" when it was a pertinent inquiry about Reform's embrace of vaccine conspiracy theories. But if has-beens of Zahawi's status see Reform as a rehabilitation of offenders scheme, rising stars will see it, rather than the Tory party, as the path to high office. |
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