Dr. Charles Cornish-Dale
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I think you are right about reform being the de facto number two, de facto opposition.
Now, I don't think we can be in any doubt about that, despite the quite surprising result in the Aberdeen by-election where the Conservatives picked up their first gain in Scotland for I think it was actually 60 years.
And what's more, in a constituency that actually the Conservatives really...
shafted, really, you know, helped to destroy by destroying the North Sea oil and gas industry.
So that's interesting.
But no, de facto number two, de facto opposition.
I think you're right, too, about the failure of social media to
and also the backing of Elon Musk to project Restore into contention.
I mean, my view about Restore has always been that they should operate as a pressure group, that they could work on reform to ensure that Nigel Farage doesn't
deviate too far from the right, that he doesn't become too much of a centrist, that he doesn't compromise too much, especially on matters like immigration.
And I think hopefully that's what Restore will go back to being and that they will do that effectively.
And I think also actually your point about
fielding a candidate about whether or not Nigel Farage actually should have done that is a point that a lot of people will miss.
Farage didn't have to field a candidate here.
And as you say, it has actually made Andy Burnham look like he might be the Nigel Farage slayer, which Kemi Badenoch isn't and which Keir Starmer isn't.
And that may very well propel him through a leadership contest.
We know he wants a leadership contest.
The MP in Makerfield stood aside.
specifically so Andy Burnham could become an MP and take a leadership contest, that may very well propel him now to the office of prime minister.
And then we could have a snap election called.
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