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LABOUR challenged the public to spot the difference between Ukip and the Tories yesterday after the latest defection between them which this time saw a Ukip MEP jump ship.
John Trickett MP ridiculed the “revolving door” separating the two parties following the announcement that Amjad Bashir had rejoined the Conservatives.
Mr Bashir turned on his ex-colleagues in a Mail on Sunday article, branding Ukip “amateur” and a “party of ruthless self-interest.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP