Richard Tice was out yesterday at Reform’s big election launch, proudly declaring that his party is ready for the upcoming election. ‘We are going to win seats’ he promised, as he revealed that Reform will be standing candidates in all 630 seats in England, Wales and Scotland. One of those areas is Gravesham in Kent, currently represented by Tory Adam Holloway. The local Reform branch is excitedly tweeting graphics about Tice’s plans to ‘freeze immigration, scrap Net Zero’ and deliver ‘high growth’.
So it was so somewhat unfortunate then that in their haste to hail the forthcoming election they, er, get the date wrong. On their Twitter/X account, Reform Gravesham proudly announced that it was ‘ready for the General Election on 6th July’. That will come as news to the rest of the country which is preparing to go to the polls when they are actually open on Thursday 4 July.
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