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Cult-like Reform activists chant “Nigel will be prime minister” The Independent’s political correspondent Millie Cooke reports: At the end of Andrea Jenkyns’ address to the Reform conference, she commanded party activists to “stand up and be proud to be the party of the brave”. In an episode that was indisputablyContinue Reading
