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Reform offer removal van to Tory HQ

It is the season of goodwill to all men. So, in the spirit of brotherly love, Reform staff have today made a kindly Christmas gesture to their Tory rivals. Two removal vans rocked up at Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) with an offer to help Kemi Badenoch’s staff move out ahead of their expected departure from Matthew Parker Street in 2026. Unsurprisingly, the Tories are yet to take up Nigel Farage’s team on such a generous offer…

The ‘Reform Removals’ vans are billed as offering a ‘premium removals service’ for struggling political forces. ‘Major movers for minor parties’ is the slogan emblazoned on both sides of each van. A senior Reform source told Mr S that the offer to the Tories was made in a spirit of altruism: ‘Their staff have had one of the busiest years in politics cancelling memberships, losing councillors and dropping in the polls.  The least we could do was turn up with a van and help them finish the job.’

Ouch. It comes a year after Reform’s last Christmas stunt, when Farage aides cheekily projected their growing membership numbers onto CCHQ’s building. Since then, the party has overtaken the Tories on the metrics of council seats, by-election wins and opinion polls too. In May, they could add seats in the Welsh and Scottish parliaments to that list as well.

Happy Christmas Kemi eh?

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