𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

Britain is broken. You can see it wherever you look.

Real wages haven’t increased in years. The small boats, bringing dangerous people, keep coming. 93% of crime goes unsolved. Our roads are littered with potholes.

Recently, my Dad, Bill, having suffered a stroke, waited 12 hours in A&E to be seen. Everyone I know has a story like that.
Public services, the economy, law and order: none of it is working as it should.

But the Conservative Party – a party I joined as a boy – won’t admit Britain is broken. Why? Because they broke it.
Let me give you an example.

Over Christmas, I attacked Labour for bringing the anti-British, anti-Semitic, terrorist sympathiser, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, here from Egypt. I urged them to revoke his visa and deport this dangerous man from our shores. But senior figures in the Tory party were angry at me because, and I quote, it “exposed the party to criticism for having granted him citizenship in 2021.”

It wasn’t an isolated case. I’d been reprimanded before for being outspoken about the Grooming Gang scandal, for calling for lower migration, and for criticising Keir Starmer’s decision to sell off the Chagos Islands.

The fact is that the Tory Party is so compromised by its own failures in Government that it cannot speak for the country and oppose Labour’s madness. Even now, despite their public statements, they are privately in cahoots with Labour to cancel local elections in May.

That’s a dereliction of duty.

My decision to defect to Reform was difficult, but it was undoubtedly the right one.

I fought for a better Conservative Party. In Cabinet, I tried to secure important changes. To build more houses for our youngsters, to cut immigration, and to stop the boats. At first, I spoke up behind the scenes and then increasingly more loudly when my calls fell on deaf ears. But it still wasn’t enough.

That’s why I resigned from the last government when I knew they weren’t serious about stopping the boats, and voted against my party over the sham Rwanda Bill.

Since the election, I fought to get the Conservative Party to change, first as a leadership candidate and then from within the shadow cabinet.

But, over time, it has become clear to me, having seen it up close, that the Conservative Party is too broken to change. There are some very good people in the party, but they are outweighed by people who just don’t get it or are in denial.

The generations that came before us built a great country. But right now, we’re set to lose it. The moment calls for us to set personal ambition aside, speak the truth and act accordingly.

Nigel Farage has stood – consistently, and often alone – for what’s needed. Ending mass migration. Cheap energy. Cutting waste, taxes, and red tape.

When the first boats started crossing, he was in the Channel saying it was outrageous. They laughed at him. They’re not laughing now.

Nigel has the conviction of his principles and is building the team to deliver real change Express readers have been crying out for.
And to those sceptical about Reform I say this: they are Britain’s last best hope. The Conservative Party is too compromised to deliver. I have seen up close that they haven’t changed and would fail again if given the chance. To unite the Right and stop Starmer’s disastrous Government – or worse, a rainbow coalition of the Greens, Lib Dems and SNP in power – we have to unite behind Nigel.

So, I am proud to be Reform’s 270,000th member. And to Express readers, I say this: if you’re not already on board, join the movement. The country’s future depends on you.