Judy sacking Punch is hilarious obviously but the Tories’ problem remains. How do they stop leakage to Reform while distinguishing themselves from Reform? Johnson’s hollowing out of the moderate wing of the party back in the day may have been its death warrant.

Surely, surely, this will allow most Reform supporters finally to wake up to the fact that they are backing the very same self-serving, corrupt, venal right wing grifters they’ve been trying to reject since the last election?

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Key line in Will Lloyd's piece on Robert Jenrick's sacking: "Jenrick had told friends in recent weeks that he thought Reform lacked a viable economic spokesperson or an eventual shadow chancellor."

Is that the job Jenrick has his eye on?

@willoyd.bsky.social
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