Nish Kumar

Of all the Tories to defect to Reform, Zoe, surely, Suella Braverman is the least surprising.

Can I ask you something, honestly?

Is this actually good for reform?

You know, the last 10 years has largely been people saying, this is the end of Nigel Farage's political career.

This is a really bad move.

And then he becomes even more successful.

So what am I not seeing here?

Because from my perspective, I'm looking at this and thinking,

Well, he's just I mean, it's just becoming the Conservative Party.

It's just becoming the party that was absolutely resoundingly voted out with huge numbers at the last election.

But what am I missing here?

Why is this good?

I mean, I'm sure there's a few monkeys throwing their shit at people who are watching them in a zoo, thinking, oh, I could have a go at one of these reform seats.

The flagship policy is get them out.

It's government by trolling, which takes us on to the Gorton and Denton by-election.

So on Tuesday, as Zoe's already alluded to, GB News presenter Matt Goodman was unveiled as the reform candidate for this by-election, but it wasn't long until his links to Manchester were being questioned in this clip shared by the Labour Party.

If I know one thing about Manchester, they love people saying Manchester's a shithole.

We talked about it with Leila Cullingham in London last week.

It's another great example of people running

to be the elected representative of a place that they think is an absolute shithole.