Andrew Willshire: Reform is a Frankenstein’s monster of a party

Andrew Willshire: Reform is a Frankenstein’s monster of a party

Andrew Willshire is founder of the independent strategic analytics consultancy Diametrical Ltd. Ever since the election, there has been a fashion among parts of the right-wing commentator class to tour news studios to demand that the Conservative party have some sort of “reckoning”, an “inquisition” into how and why it failed. It’s usually adjacent to a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, I-didn’t-leave-the party-the-party-left-me bleating of a slight…

Welcome to the even nastier party

Another batch of Tory defectors means Nigel Farage’s Reform is becoming a blend of the worst of Trussonomics and the worst of racist nativism