The Conservative party’s decision this week to effectively concede the result of the general election risks badly backfiring.
Rather than helping to shore up their vote, as they had hoped, it has instead given a green light to the party’s core voters to simply abandon them altogether.
And abandoning them they surely are.
According to one leading pollster, Nigel Farage’s Reform have already overtaken the Conservative party, with other polls suggesting Sunak’s approval ratings continue to decline.
That this would happen was inevitable. Ever since the Conservative Party first started feeding the Faragist crocodile back in 2016, Sunak’s party have succeeded only in further growing the monster’s appetite.
The result is the re-emergence of a populist right-wing political movement which not only risks devouring the Conservative party, but taking a chunk out of our broader politics too.
Here’s why the rise of the new Faragists should worry us all.