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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK will ‘pick off’ Tory MPs, Lee Anderson warns

Source: PA Wire

Lee Anderson has warned that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could “pick off” a lot of Conservative MPs and open the door for a Labour landslide.

The Tory deputy chairman said Mr Farage’s party, formerly the Brexit Party, is a “threat”, adding that they are a “bigger threat to the country at the moment than the Labour Party”.

, which in London on Wednesday, could split the vote in tens of Tory seats, adding the scale of a potential Labour election win.

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