It is a well known axiom of politics that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have well and truly lost the argument. But that golden rule seems to have been lost on Tory party chairman Kevin Hollinrake who has rightly come under heavy fire for comparing Reform UK to the Nazis.

Hollinrake’s gaffe is a measure of just how worried the Tories are about the rise of Reform

Hollinrake posted two images on X showing a black and gold Reform logo promoting the populist party on a football shirt next to a picture of the Nazis’ golden party badge – a special award instituted by Hitler on becoming German Chancellor in 1933 to honour the party ‘alte kampfer’ (old fighters), the first 100,000 loyal Nazi members who joined after the party’s foundation in 1919.

Hollinrake evidently tho

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