Stop letting Slippery Starmer off the hook – Tories and Reform should resist actuality | Politics | News | EUROtoday

The weekend papers ought to have been wall-to-wall protection of  Keir Starmer’s disastrous stewardship of the UK. His by no means ending U-turns, now clocking up at a charge of 1 each six weeks; his dismantling of democracy as 4 million individuals are to be disadvantaged of their vote on the native elections in May; and the devastation he’s heaping on pubs, motels, cafes and the excessive road, with a pub going to the wall every day. Instead, Slippery Starmer was let off the hook as Robert Jenrick’s weird defection stole the headlines.

Be in little doubt there may be bitterness when a colleague defects. When somebody you considered ‘one of us’ does the soiled and leaves you, it’s like a associate having an affair after which working off with them, it’s painful. Some defections appear extra real, others extra private, and I’m afraid to say Robert’s felt private.

The actuality is Robert by no means received over shedding the management election to Kemi Badenoch. For some time, I’m fairly sure he harboured the idea he could be her rapid successor, perhaps at the same time as quickly because the May 2026 native elections, because the polls initially made tough viewing for Conservatives. He would due to this fact work onerous, present he was management materials and expose Labour’s failures, which he did brilliantly with power and ingenuity.

His video exposing Sadiq Khan’s lawless London and fare dodgers was good and went viral, he usually wiped the ground with David ‘Calamity’ Lammy within the House of Commons, and nailed Labour over its plans to scrap trial by jury – which no doubt can be their subsequent U-turn. Unfortunately for Robert, Kemi too received a lot stronger on the Despatch Box and extra assured within the media. Her dismantling of Rachel Reeves on the Budget was a watershed second, serving to to show the fortunes of the Conservative Party round and making her place as chief protected and unassailable.

It appears, this realisation precipitated Robert’s private ambition to get the higher of him and with out the carrot of the management dangling, he started to plot his defection. Kemi received wind of it, uncovered his disloyalty, and compelled his hand.

The nice unhappiness of this defection is that it has taken our eye off the ball. The political battle on this nation will not be between the Conservative Party and Reform – we now have a lot in widespread. It’s towards this awful authorities and Socialism.

The nation’s battle is with the left, and the specter of a rainbow coalition of the left that may assist Labour stay in energy. We noticed this within the Caerphilly by-election in Wales, Plaid Cymru received and pushed Reform into second place because the left rallied round Plaid.

My message is overlook Robert and Andrew Rosindell’s defections, they’re disappointing, however they’re a political facet present. Our focus have to be on eradicating Starmer and this terrible socialist authorities and getting the information protection again on the havoc this bunch of duds is inflicting on us all.