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
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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“At local level, it’s different."
