Labour will ‘destabilise’ Reform, Badenoch warns

Election day is just around the corner and politicians across the country are pulling out the stops. Now Kemi Badenoch has taken to the fine pages of the Telegraph to urge voters not to back Reform – after new analysis splashed across today’s papers (detailed by Katy here) suggests that 130,000 voters across 100 seats could result in a very different election outcome.

The Business Secretary has opined on the threat posed by an incoming Labour government – which she suggests is Reform’s favoured outcome. ‘Reform leaders have been clear about their aim in this general election,’ Badenoch writes. ‘Not to win it, but to ensure that the Conservatives lose so badly that the party cannot recover.’ In a piece that is not altogether unfriendly towards Nigel Farage, the Conservative candidate for North West Essex warns Reform’s leader:

I don’t know Nigel Farage personally, but like him I know what it is like to be targeted by a disdainful establishment and their luvvie friends.