Richard Tice hands over the reins of the Reform party after single-handedly fronting, funding and running it until the moment anyone actually cared
– seven innings without troubling the scorers – was the week’s big moment. Thoughts please for the now former Reform leader Richard Tice, who handed Farage the party reins after almost single-handedly fronting, funding and running it right up to the moment that anyone actually cared. Not since the tribulations of Wallace and Gromit
has a bafflingly devoted sidekick been so mistreated by a nationally renowned oddball. But Gromit had the excuse of being both a dog and a fictional character – neither of which Tice can realistically fall back on.A few alarm bells ringing at CCHQ after Tory chairman Richard Holden, ostensibly in charge of the Conservative effort to get lots of people elected, secured his party’s nomination in Basildon and Billericay after seeing off precisely zero other contenders.
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