TUC leader Frances O’Grady will take on the Tories today, warning that their trickle-down economics and trade union attacks are turning off their “natural” voters.
Ms O’Grady will issue her wake-up call to a meeting of the Bright Blue group at Conservative conference in Birmingham.
She will warn their “winner-takes-all capitalism” is hammering middle-class families as well their traditional working-class opposition.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE



