Liam Thorp

And Robert Jenrick has made really no secret of his ambitions.

He is as brazen about that.

I mean, so much to the point of leaving his defection speech on the photocopier, if reports of each be correct.

You've got someone there who is very much up for climbing the ladder wherever possible.

And now you've got Nigel Farage, as you say, this kind of godfather figure of reform.

He's not going to really tolerate any of that, is he?

And I predict fireworks along the way.

One thing I saw someone tweet the other day was, how many more defections until Ed Davey just randomly by accident becomes the leader of the opposition?

the Tories numbers are just wilting and wilting by the day, aren't they?

So you could have an accidental change of opposition there.

It's worth pointing out that on my home patch here in Merseyside, we've had quite a lot of defections from councillors as well.

And as you would imagine, most of this happens from former Tories.

So in the Wirral, just over the water from Liverpool, we had three councillors who were formerly conservatives who've gone to reform.

Don't think people were too surprised by that.

However,

elsewhere in Merseyside, in St.

Helens, we had a councillor who's defected from the Greens to reform, which is about as random a political journey that I could ever imagine.

I've asked him for an interview to explain to voters who voted him in as a Green Party councillor to explain why it is that he's now representing Nigel Farage's reform.

So far, he's yet to respond.

where the green to reform journey was, was in St.