The Moggster, one of the most interesting and amusing presenters on GB News, recently proposed that his party (the Tories) and Reform UK form an electoral pact to contest the next general election, with a view to victory for ‘Toryism’. This would include offering Nigel Farage and Richard Tice (leader, Reform UK) and BoJo safe seats to contest at the next general election for the Tories, with a view to the following in the event of a Tory victory:

• Farage being appointed a cabinet minister
• BoJo being appointed Foreigh Secretary again, replacing the execrable David Cameron

The Moggster interviewed Farage last night on his GB News show, the link here, relevant sections being 1:32 – 1:56, 2:37 – 2:57 and 5:40 – 16:57. The actual interview is in the final section of the three, but the others are worth catching by way of an introduction.

The idea of Farage and his Reform UK colleagues forming an electoral pact with the Tories is too awful to contemplate. At best it would result in a less devastating defeat for the Tories at the general election, at the cost of destroying Reform UK as a potentially major and genuinely right-of-centre party post-election, after the Tories fall into the dustbin of history, where they have long belonged – since at least the selection of the ultra-progressive David Cameron as party leader in 2005.

During my assignment as a consultant for the Tories (2006-8) I developed a new conference model for the party, which delivered £11.5 million to the party over the ensuing years, during whcih time it was the leading income stream of the party. The story is here. Given the rather lower cost for donors seeking knighthoods and peerages, I really should be Baron Buchanan of Bedford by now.

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