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I respect the Tory leader, but she has as much chance of being PM as the Green’s boss Zack Polanski,” says Robert Jenrick. And that, in a nutshell, is why he defected to Reform. Who wants to be on the losing side? Who wants to be in a party with a leader who’ll never be Prime Minister and who despises the bloke who will be so much she reiterated again this week that she’d never do a deal “with Reform liars”?

That’s the kind of blind intransigence that’ll consign the Tories to the political dustbin. And Jenrick saw that. People keep talking about the Kemi “bounce” and about how she’s turning the Tories around with her gutsy performances at the Despatch box where she regularly eviscerates Starmer.

Well, if she’s that good – why all the defections (Nadhim Zahawi also jumped ship this week)? Why is a gap-toothed dope like Zack Polanski still beating her in the polls? The Tories only look like they’re doing better under Kemi because Starmer and Labour are doing so catastrophically badly.

Since his defection, Jenrick’s former Tory colleagues have been slating him as a traitorous turncoat who’s been driven mad by personal ambition. And what the hell’s wrong with that? Better to be driven by ambition than be blindly plodding towards obscurity which the Tories are.

Love him or loathe him, Jenrick talks about the kind of issues that affect people’s lives – just like Reform does. He’s a great communicator – just like Farage is. Yes, he’s a slippery self-promoter but most politicians are – the difference being that Jenrick is also effective and driven.

This week he slated the Tories as “rotten”, “dishonest” and not willing to change. He also said they “broke” Britain. He’s right. And Labour’s breaking what’s left of it. He also says neither Labour nor the Tories have the guts to do what needs to be done. And that’s exactly why millions WILL vote Reform – because Farage has.

We know he’ll be ruthless on immigration. We know he’ll tear up the human rights act. We know he’ll take on the scroungers and the liggers who get billions in benefits. We know he’ll support business because he’s run small businesses for 30 years and knows how hard it is. We also know he’ll tackle the creeping Islamisation of this country.

Farage’s unique strength is that he doesn’t tip-toe around the tough stuff other politicians are terrified to talk about. He also instinctively understands what affects people’s lives and has, without doubt been THE most influential politician of the last 50 years.

He made Brexit happen for God’s sake when he didn’t even have a parliamentary seat. And he made it okay for Britons to voice their very real fears about mass illegal immigration without being slated as racists.

Yes, the party is in its infancy, but polls show it talking a language Brits are desperate to hear because they’re sick of Labour’s lies. They’re furious about its broken promises and they’re terrified of an increasingly authoritarian government that’s determined to stamp out free speech and puts everyone above hard-working Brits – foreign criminals, illegal migrants, benefit scroungers.

They see a government actively working against the interests of the British people and they want one which will be on their side. And they believe Reform will be. In the same way Trump says America first, Farage says Britain and its people first. And that’s what Brits want.

If Kemi really was the strong, ruthless leader her party says she is, she’d see the only hope of kicking out the bunch of shysters now running this country – especially the dud in No 10 – is to join forces with Reform.

Currently the right-wing vote is split and, come the election, there needs to be a pact between the Tories and Reform – because without one it opens the door to the catastrophic scenario of a Labour-Lib Dem one. If Kemi really cares about this country, she needs to think about that!