In a blistering and no-holds-barred statement, former Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has launched a furious broadside against Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, blaming them for the Conservative Party's impending electoral oblivion.
The ex-Culture Secretary, who served under Boris Johnson, used her formal announcement that she will not be standing in the July 4th election to deliver a devastating critique of what she termed the 'Farage agenda'. She accused Reform of being a party built on 'false promises' that is actively harming the country it claims to want to save.
The 'Destroy Everything' Agenda
Dorries pulled no punches in her assessment, stating that a vote for Reform is effectively a vote to destroy the very institutions that uphold British democracy. She argued that the party's entire strategy is based on a cynical and destructive form of politics.
'A plague has been visited upon the Conservative Party,' she declared, 'and that plague is called Reform.' Her statement suggests that internal division and the siphoning off of votes to the right have left the Tories fatally wounded.
A Direct Attack on Farage
Dorries saved her most potent venom for Nigel Farage himself, the honorary president of Reform UK. She dismissed his political project as a vanity endeavour that serves only his own interests, rather than those of the British people.
She painted a picture of a party with no credible plan for governance, whose sole purpose is to capitalise on public discontent. Her intervention is one of the most stark and public condemnations of Farage from a senior Tory figure to date.
The Stakes for the Country
Beyond the internal party squabbles, Dorries framed the rise of Reform as a genuine threat to the national interest. She warned that their influence could lead to a prolonged period of Labour rule, which she believes would be detrimental to the nation.
Her statement serves as a final, stark warning to Conservative voters from a departing stalwart: splitting the right-wing vote ensures a victory for the left. It is a dramatic parting shot from a politician bowing out of frontline politics with a formidable bang.
