Another day, another Reform press conference. Today the central London meet-up saw former Conservative MP-turned-defector Danny Kruger take to the podium to set out his plans to prepare the party for government. As James Heale wrote for Coffee House, Kruger wants to reduce civil servant numbers, end leases on a selection of Whitehall premises and better empower parliament. But he also turned his attention to his own (new) party too – setting out something of a vision of Reform’s evolution.

‘I’m going to start by risking a metaphor,’ Kruger warned his crowd. He went on:

People keep asking me how I feel having left the sinking ship of the Tory party, and I feel pretty good. We are riding high. The wind is in our sails. I’m on a ship that is actually going somewhere. And, of course, as we a

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