Tories say Reform UK is a ‘party of has-been politicians’ after Nadhim Zahawi defects – UK politics live

Lib Dems say move shows Reform UK becoming a ‘retirement home for disgraced former Conservative ministers’

Zahawi says he accepts that the Conservatives are to blame for some of the problems facinng the country.

Since leaving parliament, I have been reflecting on the successes and failures of my old party’s time in government, and I rue the timidity, even at times the weakness, with which we try to deal with the problems of the country.

My analysis is that a huge culprit is the over-mighty bureaucratic inertia that now dominates and runs the country, that has taken control of swathes of the economy and, with barely a shrug of the shoulders, restricts the individual liberty of each and every one of us.

So it is time for another glorious revolution to get us back to a fully sovereign parliament.

Britain needs Reform.

My own party, and by definition to some extent me personally, should share some blame for the continuation of the Blairite constitutional vandalism and our failure, to coin a phrase, to take back control from the rich powers of the unelected bureaucracy.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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