Is Reform UK coming for Conservative votes?

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, joins Christopher Hope for a wide ranging chat about tax cuts, new open cast coal mines and veterans running the police, amongst other subjects. The former Brexit Party leader claims that in the fortnight since Truss resigned 4,534 people have signed up to join Reform UK - and that the Tories should be quaking. Tice sees the party's rise in popularity as a sign of anger at an "establishment coup" and gives Chancellor Jeremy Hunt a rather brutal career assessment.

Also on the podcast, Stephen Watson from the National Flagship Programme Board commiserates with Chopper at what looks like the end of the line for a replacement for Royal Yacht Britannia - although something tells us Chopper won't give up that easily.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	What's happening now with the likes of Sunak and Jeremy Hunt taking over in a form of coup because that's essentially what it is.
0:13.2	The establishment have taken back control from the people who asked to take back control
0:19.7	from Brussels.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to Chopper's politics. Brussels. Own's edition for Chopper's Politics Listeners,
0:32.6	Don't say I don't treat you.
0:34.5	Later this week, I'll bring you an episode
0:36.5	in reaction to Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement
0:40.2	and look set to be a bruising one
0:42.3	as the Chancellor battles to balance the books against the
0:45.0	headwind of a lot of cross conservative MPs.
0:49.0	A few days ago at the Telegraph I reported how thousands of people have joined Reform UK, which emerged from the ashes of the
0:57.5	Brexit Party after the 2019 general election.
1:01.9	And these numbers should worry conservative
1:04.6	Central office not least because Reform UK does well when people are
1:09.6	polled and asking how they might vote at the next general election.
1:13.2	I wanted to explore this potential threat to the Tory party ahead of the autumn statement.
1:18.8	So I headed to a rather swanky blocker flats on the south bank of the River Thames quite near the
1:25.8	House of Parliament to meet up with Richard Tice the leader of Reform UK.
1:35.0	Richard Tice welcome to Ch Choperphaltics podcast. Great to be with you, Chris.
1:36.0	Great to have you on.
1:37.0	We're here in your flat.
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