{"id":293,"date":"2024-02-22T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2024-02-22T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:02:40","slug":"nigel-farages-plan-for-power-tom-mctague-unherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/nigel-farages-plan-for-power-tom-mctague-unherd\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNigel Farage\u2019s plan for power\u201d &#8211; Tom McTague (Unherd)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFor some in the party, denying the Tories victory would force them to become \u201ctrue\u201d conservatives again, perhaps under the leadership of Suella Braverman. But for others, including Habib, the goal is to permanently destroy the Conservative parliamentary party as an electoral force. \u201cIt does not deserve to survive,\u201d he told me. \u201cYou can\u2019t reward failure with incumbency, the party needs to be obliterated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, though, lies the question at the heart of Reform: what is its ultimate purpose? This question is neatly encapsulated in the figure of Farage himself: the founder and majority shareholder who is not planning to stand for the party at the election but is flirting with the idea of joining the Tories afterwards\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/12\/nigel-farages-plan-for-power\/\">https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/12\/nigel-farages-plan-for-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor some in the party, denying the Tories victory would force them to become \u201ctrue\u201d conservatives again, perhaps under the leadership of Suella Braverman. But for others, including Habib, the goal is to permanently destroy the Conservative parliamentary party as an electoral force. \u201cIt does not deserve to survive,\u201d he told me. \u201cYou can\u2019t reward&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}