Ructions in Reform
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
As the internal ‘punch up’ in Reform UK rumbles on, your co-pilots give their take on the latest fumblings. But whose corner are they fighting for?
Allison is unimpressed and thinks the last thing the country needs is to see one of its newest parties in a ‘willy wanging contest’.
Whilst Liam thinks the fractions could be due to possible ego inflation happening in line with the party’s expansion.
And both co-pilots ponder if Reform can really reform itself?
Strapping in for a return voyage on the rocket is investigative journalist Charlotte Gill who explains all about her campaign to clean up ‘‘woke waste’ and why the taxpayers in this country are ‘funding their own demise’…
And Liam shares more from his recent journey… up a chimney!
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘Reform’s alpha males need to shut up and get on with the job’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/11/reforms-alpha-males-need-to-shut-up-and-get-on-with-the-job/|
Read Liam: ‘Trump’s economically illiterate bravado could do very serious damage’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/09/trumps-economically-illiterate-bravado-could-do-damage/ |
Read Allison and Molly Kingsley: ‘Five years on, British officialdom remains blind to the Covid catastrophe’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/08/british-officialdom-remains-blind-to-the-covid-catastrophe/ |
Read more from Charlotte: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/cf-cj/charlotte-gill/ |
Read Charlotte’s substack: https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Five. They're getting closer to power. The stakes are getting higher. So the egos that are always |
| 0:08.8 | around at the top of politics are getting more and more belligerent. This is an issue about |
| 0:14.8 | whether a potential Prime Minister is capable of working alongside intellectual equals. |
| 0:22.6 | You have the taxpayers voting for governments that are saying one thing |
| 0:27.3 | and then it's funding the opposite. |
| 0:29.5 | Two. |
| 0:30.5 | Come down to this sort of public schoolboy, Willie-wanging spat. |
| 0:35.6 | One. |
| 0:39.3 | We have the star. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello. |
| 0:47.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:49.0 | Reform UK is starting to resemble a punch-up in a phone box. |
| 0:53.6 | Nigel Farage's upstart party is embroiled in a huge row, |
| 0:57.4 | as the Reform UK leadership, not least Farage himself |
| 1:00.2 | and Deputy Leader Richard Tice, |
| 1:02.4 | try to oust one of the party's five MPs, |
| 1:05.6 | the former businessman Rupert Lowe, |
| 1:07.8 | the Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth. |
| 1:10.6 | Lowe is a highly effective campaignerer who's not only a master strong following on X, the social |
| 1:16.5 | media platform formerly known as Twitter. He's also attracted the support of the owner of the |
| 1:21.7 | ex platform himself, who happens to be the world's richest man? Donald Trump's advisor Elon Musk. |
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