Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said Reform UK “won’t win” the next general election but the party “can stop” the Tories.
The former business secretary called for the right of British politics to reunite following Lee Anderson’s defection.
He warned “divided wings of politics lose” and “fundamentally, the Conservative Party needs to be adopting popular conservative policies and reuniting the right”.
He told GB News: “We know Reform won’t win the election, but they can stop, they can make it harder, for the Conservatives. And this means that what all of us want becomes less likely. That’s why I think Lee made a mistake in going.”
Mr Anderson, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, defected to Reform yesterday. He was stripped of the Tory whip at the end of February following a row over comments he made about Sadiq Khan.
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