Lord Frost floats a 2028 Reform pact

To Buckingham, for a blast of soundness at the annual Margaret Thatcher conference. Star of the show was David Frost, the guest speaker at last night’s dinner. And the Tory peer has certainly been brushing up on his political bon mots, judging by his lines to the 200 attendees. Frost compared the ‘amateurish farrago’ of Labour’s early days in office to his own attempts at ‘assembling Ikea furniture. I sort of get everything out of the box, chuck away the instructions, try and put it all together, and then when it’s all a bit of a mess, turn to my wife and say, “Well, where’s the plan?”’

Keir Starmer, he joked, is the ‘human equivalent of one of those terms and conditions… irritating, verbose, boring, and with something rather unpleasant hidden down in the verbiage. And certainly, the British people clicked on those terms and conditions a bit too quickly I think last summer.’ Frost