Losing The Plot

Nadine Dorries objects to the Online Safety Act because it does not go far enough. In acquiring its third Privy Counsellor, all of whom are former Conservative Ministers and two of whom sat in recent Cabinets, Reform UK welcomes a legendarily neglectful parliamentarian who left the Conservative Party because it had not given her a peerage. As if one Andrea Jenkyns were not one too many, the accession of Dorries establishes Reform beyond doubt as a Boris Johnson fan club.

Johnson was the Prime Minister of Net Zero. He was a very big spender long before Covid-19. He even lifted the requirement that jobs in Britain be advertised first in Britain, making him the most pro-immigration Prime Minister ever, since Liz Truss never got into her stride. Johnson was closer to Stonewall than any Prime Minister before or since. The lockdowns were Johnson's. The Northern Ireland Protocol was Johnson's. The war in Ukraine was Johnson's. They are all now Reform's. Along with the Online Safety Bill that Dorries would have introduced, before it was "watered down". Four years to go.