“When the Tories crash next month it will not be because they failed to win over Reform supporters, but – at least in part – because they tried to.”
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“[On Boris Johnson] Look, this is a joke but this is not a joke. Somebody has to call a halt to the gathering pretence that if only you're sufficiently comical in politics you can laugh everything off....”

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