Welcome to Political Fix from the Financial Times with me, George Parker.

School is out and so are MPs. The House of Commons rose for its summer recess on Tuesday.

Before everyone disappeared to the beach, it was a moment for Britain's opposition leaders to take centre stage.

I always get asked, oh, Doge, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and I always say,

Malay is the template. He did not lie to people about what he was going in to do.

He wasn't doing what reform were doing. He said, well, you'll have more benefits and we'll nationalise this.

He was honest and look at the results.

That's Kemmy Badenock, leader of the Conservative opposition,

talking up the chainsaw-wielding, state-cutting Argentinian President Javier Millet,

as told to me and my colleague Robert Strimsley when we interviewed her this week,

shortly after she announced a reshuffle of her front bench.

She went on to admit that Nigel Farage's Reform UK

had been the big beneficiary of the collapse of support for labour.

The speed of their inclusion has fuelled more disenchantment

and reform has been the repository of that disenchantment.

But she said that populism and courting a protest vote with simplistic solutions

couldn't be a model for the Conservatives.

We cannot be the repository for disenchantment. That's not what conservatism is.

Conservatism is about fixing problems. That's all I want to do.

And Farage himself, true to form, was making just as many headlines, unveiling reforms plans

for law and order, and making provocative remarks about the police handling of unrest at an

Essex migrant hotel. Earlier this month, we had a look at Kier Starrmer's first year in office,

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