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Tories feud over pact with Farage
Leadership contender Robert Jenrick speaking at a fringe event during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, September 30, 2024
'These figures should be a wake-up call'
TOP Tories fell out over unity with Nigel Farage’s Reform party at the Conservative conference today.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, now an ex-MP but still a Tory membership favourite, urged an electoral pact with the hard-right Reform.
He told a fringe event that Conservatives should “not oppose Reform in those 98 seats” where it is second to Labour.
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