Will Keir Starmer’s Shambles Hand Farage The Keys To No 10?

Nigel Farage will now gear Reform up to be prepared in case Labour’s descent into chaos initiates a snap general election. 

In a speech this afternoon, Mr Farage will lay out his intentions for his front-bench team and urge party members to be prepared to cast ballots before the end of the year.

While there are expected to be many positions filled by former Tories like Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, he is expected to announce a number of positions held by figures outside politics, the Telegraph reported. 

While a general election is not expected to take place until 2029 and there remain numerous obstacles to one happening earlier, he will also say that Reform is beginning its recruitment campaign for prospective MPs.

It comes as Labour continues to eat itself over the appointment of former minister Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, after a slew of revelations about his closeness to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

The PM is holed up in Downing Street after the storm over the peer’s position as US ambassador claimed the scalp of Morgan McSweeney.

MPs are warning Sir Keir he must show he ‘gets’ the problem and is willing to lurch to the Left when he addresses a highly-charged meeting of the Parliamentary Party this evening.

However, there is speculation that the premier could just opt to walk away, with deathly silence from the most senior Cabinet ministers.

Last week, Mr Farage told a BBC documentary that Reform was only ‘half-ready’ for a general election.

However, he is expected to use his speech to say one could be held within a year due to Labour’s ‘instability’.

‘I will be bringing together a team to build an industrial strategy, one that can rebuild our national infrastructure and security that has been dismantled by the Tories and Labour,’ he is expected to say.

He is seeking ‘brightest and best’ to stand for the party whenever the next election occurs. 

Earlier, he wrote on Twitter: ‘ Labour is just continuing the chaos we saw under the Tories.

‘My money says Starmer won’t be far behind after Labour’s disaster in the elections this coming May.’

It comes as Labour faces two political crunch points in the coming months, the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month and the local and devolved assembly elections in May.

Sir Keir faces losing a seat in Greater Manchester that Labour won by 13,000 votes in 2024, and it could be on course for hammerings in Scotland, Wales and English council votes.

We clearly do need a change, but I’m not sure if Reform is that change.

If Reform does get in and then morph into Tory 2.0, Farage will see the biggest civil unrest against him since Maggie encountered the poll tax riots.

Immigration is our primary issue. It affects multiple areas like housing, jobs, GPs and crime, et cetera. Can voting Reform be any more harmful than what we have now? I guess we won’t really know until they get into power, if they get into power.

Sadly, I believe that Nigel Farage is going to turn out to be an absolute Spiv who has taken an awful lot of people in, but I truly hope that I’m wrong.

The problem is that some people are acting as though Nigel Farage is a saint, but like everyone else, he is flawed and will have many shortcomings. Still, I believe he has to be worth a try, given the mess of our current government.