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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Farage and Reform UK: Should the Tories really be worried? – Michael Crick explains

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Once known as the Brexit Party, Reform UK wants to mortally wound the Tories in the General Election. Do its recent poll spikes show real support for Richard Tice’s vociferously anti-migration, anti-woke party? Should the Tories really worry – and should Labour? And could those fanciful stories about Nigel Farage joining the Tories and taking over as leader really come true? Legendary journalist and broadcaster Michael Crick explains it all to Andrew Harrison. Buy One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • “I think there’s a 20% chance Farage will be Conservative leader someday.” – Michael Crick • “If he wanted to get rid of Richard Tice, he could. He’s a ruthless figure is Farage.” – Michael Crick • “You can’t just say that all of the votes Reform get would have gone to the Conservatives.” – Michael Crick www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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inevitable. The election year, however, a reappearance of Reform UK, the political vehicle

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formerly known as the Brexit Party, is striking more

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fear than usual into a Conservative Party that's in disarray.

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The Tories are still traumatised by the UKIP surge of the early 2010s, which briefly knocked them into fifth place and led, eventually, to Brexit and the Conservative identity crisis.

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Now Farage, the Consulate Manipulator, is playing a will he won't he game on the next election saying he wanted to

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shape it without actually standing. How frightened should the Tories be of

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their noisy neighbors to the far right and is there anything to the wild stories that

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Farage could actually rejoin the Conservatives

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and eventually even end up leading the party. To help us with all this stuff is a man who's had many

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