Which one of us has not dreamed of getting a personal email from Nigel Farage? So imagine the excitement that Reform supporters must have felt when a message from their leader dropped into their inboxes late on Wednesday night. Could he also be about to offer everyone in the country £5,000 in return for electing a Reform government?
Even Honest Bob’s planned welfare cuts won’t cover that. Instead, Nige was treating us all to his reflections on his party conference that had just ended. The only drawback was that there appeared to be some gaps in his memory.
Let’s be kind and assume he was pushed for space. So let’s help him fill in the blanks. Because that’s what I was thinking too.
It’s not every party conference that is completely derailed by an undercover investigation into allegations of illegal sources of party funding. And it came completely out of the blue. Who would have thought that a party leader under investigation over a £5m gift from a Thai crypto billionaire, and a party whose main funder is Ben Delo – who was convicted in the US for failing to comply with legislation against money laundering – might be implicated in possible wrongdoing?
But we can all admire the sheer professionalism with which you handled the crisis. It was a stroke of genius to dismiss two of your oldest muckers as mere contractors. After all, Dan Jukes had only been your right-hand fixer for 10 years and James Orr, the Cambridge professor of ethics – nice touch that – was your head of policy.
Of course it was all “loose pub talk”. Everyone goes to the pub to discuss how they plan to break the law. And you definitely “hadn’t been listening”.
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