"There is only room for one party of the Right in Britain. Kemi Badenoch must act fast to ensure it is the Tories"
Telegraph: 5th December 2024: Lord Frost spells out just how much is at stake for the Conservative Party as Reform UK support rises
"‘We are about to witness a political revolution the likes of which we’ve not seen since Labour after the First World War.” Nigel Farage’s prophecy on Tuesday night... is unsettling mainstream politicians...
No one can know what politics will be like in five years’ time... One can only assess the scene today. That scene shows both the Tories and Reform ticking up in a reaction to Labour’s unpopularity, roughly 55-45 in the Conservatives’ favour. If that split is repeated at the next general election, then the Right will lose again. That much is certain...
...So far – and it is early days – the strategy of the new Conservative leadership on Reform is unclear. Robert Jenrick’s wasn’t: it was to turn the Conservative Party into a genuinely conservative party once again, the kind of party most if not all Reform voters wanted to vote for. That could, should, and perhaps will happen under Kemi Badenoch. Maybe we will learn more next year...
Meanwhile, the uncertainty is leading some Tories... to talk about an electoral deal with Reform. It’s a conversation among Tory activists too. But there is a problem: why would Reform politicians and activists want to do it?...
...the Conservative Party is in a street fight against Reform right now, and Reform is organising and mobilising fast. There’s only room for one party on the Right. For it to be the Tories, they are going to have to do things some of their MPs don’t want to do: repudiate most of their economic and social policy of the past decade; set out a firmly conservative set of policies instead; require MPs to get behind it, and face them down if they won’t. Something like this... is going to be needed for the party to answer the question, “Why should we believe you this time?”..."