Noisy anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray is the bane of British politicians, endlessly taunting them at their events with loud music. His absence from this week’s Tory conference in Manchester says much about that party’s struggle to stay relevant.
Bray just wasn’t bothered to turn up.
“Sorry, but I have more important engagements like washing the car, catching up with emails [and] weeding the garden,” he said. “Who the f**k are the Tories?”
Who are they, indeed? That was the question Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch desperately tried to answer this week, as a poll for YouGov and Sky showed half her party’s members don’t want her to lead them into the next election.
The party has recently languished at just 16 per cent in opinion polls versus Reform UK’s 30-plus per cent.
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