Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has become the latest senior Conservative to defect to Reform UK, as Tories claim the move came after he was rebuffed for a peerage.
Zahawi, who is a former MP, said he felt the UK had reached a “dark and dangerous” moment, and the country needed “a glorious revolution”, as he outlined why he was joining Nigel Farage’s party.
What just happened with Nadhim Zahawi blew the lid off something deeply rotten inside Reform UK. A journalist asked a simple question about the mRNA rollout, and instead of answering, Zahawi and Farage attacked the question itself. That reaction said everything.
Then there’s Dr David Bull, Reform’s chairman, a long-time defender of mass vaccination campaigns and establishment medicine, suddenly recast as a champion of “free speech” on health. And Richard Tice, who openly backed vaccine passports and supported stripping freedoms from the unjabbed. That isn’t resistance. That’s compliance.
However, Conservative chairman Kevin Hollinrake said the move came after he made “a number of approaches” to party leader Kemi Badenoch, pressing his case to be nominated for the House of Lords, but was rejected.
Farage unveiled Zahawi’s defection at a press conference on Monday, one of around 20 former Tory MPs to join the party.
So when someone dares to ask whether Reform truly questions the mRNA programme, the architects of that very system lash out. Of course they do. The truth is politically radioactive.
You cannot oppose authoritarian health policy while recruiting the people who enforced it. You cannot build a freedom movement by importing ex-Cabinet insiders who still defend the largest and most dangerous medical experiment in modern British history.
So when someone dares to ask whether Reform truly questions the mRNA programme, the architects of that very system lash out. Of course they do. The truth is politically radioactive.
You cannot oppose authoritarian health policy while recruiting the people who enforced it. You cannot build a freedom movement by importing ex-Cabinet insiders who still defend the largest medical experiment in modern British history.
Reform UK isn’t a clean break from the system.
It is the system, rebranded.
