The May elections were a disaster for the Tories – but a triumph for Reform. As the dust settled on the results, Spectator subscribers and readers heard from Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf and former Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg at a live edition of Coffee House Shots: The local elections shake-up. Joining them at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on 7 May was The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove, deputy political editor James Heale and political correspondent Lucy Dunn.
‘The reality is that people simply do not believe anything that the Tories say anymore,’ says Yusuf
‘I remain more confident than ever that Nigel Farage will be our next Prime Minister,’ Yusuf told the audience. ‘Our ambition is for Nigel to get the keys to Number 10 Downing Street, and for us to have 350 to 400 Reform MPs in 2029.’
Reform’s resurgence is certainly causing trouble for the Conservatives. Yusuf said there is a simple reason why: ‘The reality is that people simply do not believe anything that the Tories say anymore.
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