What we are witnessing today in our political landscape is what I and many others called a long time ago.

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It is the unstoppable swing of the pendulum of politics from the far left all the way to the right. It will swing as far as it can go despite Labour, Green, LibDem and lots of Conservative politicians trying to stop it, leaning in with all their political weight.

But the vacuum on the right left by the Conservative Party’s departure to the centre left under “New Labor Conservative” David Cameron and all the successive Conservative Leaders trying to cope with Cameron’s 2010 intake, is so vast that with Reform being the only right of centre party, this vacuum is pulling in voters with a force that will define our politics for a generation.

The Brexit vote delivered by the British people 10 years ago was a very clear mandate to take the country in a very different direction. The vote was held only a year after the Conservatives were handed a decisive victory by the voters who put their trust in the Conservative manifesto and the Party’s 200-year-old competence record. However, this vote was misread. It is a credit to the British people and their sensible, patient nature to give subsequent Conservative governments a chance........

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