Rory Stewart
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Not that bothered.
No.
Not that bothered, no.
Absolutely.
And I also think as somebody going into the polling booth thinking this through, I think the way that many people will vote in a general election if the question is, is Nigel Farage going to be prime minister?
Or Zach Polanski.
It's going to be very different to what you're doing in a local election where you may be trying to kick the two main parties.
But if somebody actually asks you, do you want Nigel Farage to be prime minister?
I'd be interested in what the polling is.
I reckon that will be considerably below what the reform vote is.
Well, that's why it's no accident that you get a lot of the Johnson people going over to him.
Danny Kruger was Boris Johnson's chief of staff, effectively.
He's gone over to
to Farage.
And you can see a lot of Boris' messages seem to be very much on a Farage line.
Oh, Nadine Doris, who was a great Boris Johnson fan, also gone over to Farage.
So yeah, Nigel Farage is the sort of Boris Johnson party, and he's appealing to the same sentiment, which is the kind of
You know, he's a bluff, straightforward guy who I can trust, and he's going to be able to make the radical moves.
And of course, what it turned out with Boris is that it wasn't true.
Boris Johnson did not make radical moves.