If New Labour was Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement, then Reform UK is perhaps Tony Blair’s. Distaste for the three-time election winner is a thread which connects much of the party’s leadership. Nigel Farage clashed with him at the European parliament in 2005. His deputy, Richard Tice, did the same as a Question Time audience member four years before. Their colleague Danny Kruger was once set to stand for the Tories against Blair in Sedgefield – but was forced out after promising a ‘creative destruction’ in public services.

Such ‘creative destruction’ is precisely the approach Reform wants to take to the post-Blair political world. Cambridge academic James Orr, the party’s latest recruit, is a leading enthusiast for a rollback of the post-1997 legal settlement, particularly the

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