I have written about Reform's news conference this morning at which Danny Kruger, the party's head of "preparing for goverment", said: "We will be ready."
They won't, of course, but their preparations should nevertheless be taken seriously.
Kruger's vague words about cutting civil service numbers do not amount to much, but Nigel Farage last week ditched the party's tax and spend promises from the last election. This showed that he knows that they were unrealistic, even if he has not put anything in their place – or even said who would be chancellor in a Reform government.
By the time of the next election, a number of Conservative MPs are likely to have defected to Reform, giving it a little more credibility: I speculate about Robert Jenrick or Katie Lam as possible home secretary in a Reform government.
But Farage's best weapon is the anti-politics mood of the British people. As Kruger said, they voted for change in 2019 and 2024 and didn't get it. There are a lot of voters who think that Reform may not be well-prepared, but cannot be worse than the established parties.
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