Not so long ago, an MP was free to earn whatever he liked however he liked, push off without impediment to work for businesses that he’d been responsible for regulating, and could hold his seat comfortably for the best part of 50 years. No longer.

One might have thought that the stock of MPs would therefore have risen. But it hasn’t: the more ethically we compel them to behave, the more unpopular they seem to become.

So congratulations to Zia Yusuf, Reform’s former party chairman – and one of Nigel Farage’s closest colleagues – for taking our detestation of MPs to its logical conclusion: namely, stopping them governing us altogether. In a manner of speaking.

Yusuf has declared that a Reform government will appoint ‘household names’ with ‘galactic-level talent’ to the Cabinet – many of w

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