Reform UK Takes in Zahawi – And The Backlash Is MASSIVE
Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform UK, and that move has blown a hole clean through the party’s anti-elite pitch. Right, so Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform UK, and this isn’t a one-off, it’s the system doing what it always does when one brand collapses and another looks useful, when one gravy train starts running out of juice and another offers plenty. A former Conservative chancellor, dumped after a tax scandal and apparently sulking after having been blocked from a peerage, has walked straight into a party that claims to exist to smash elite entitlement, which is a laugh when it is…
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