How many Tories is too many? That’s the question that Westminster is asking after the unveiling of Reform’s latest defector. Nadhim Zahawi, Boris Johnson’s brief-lived Chancellor of the Exchequer, is Nigel Farage’s latest recruit. He told journalists that the UK has reached a ‘dark and dangerous’ moment, and the country needed ‘a glorious revolution’. Farage is the William III to whom Zahawi is now turning.

Zahawi said he was also joining Reform because he has concerns about free speech

His motive, he said, was overhauling the British state. He attacked the ‘over-powerful’ civil service and quangos conceived under Tony Blair and fostered under the Tories. He admitted that that he shared some blame for........

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