Nigel Farage may “definitely” change into prime minister on the subsequent normal election, Dominic Cummings has stated.
The previous Quantity 10 aide has suggested the Reform UK chief on easy methods to go from “one man and an iPhone” to getting into Downing Avenue.
Requested if Mr Farage could possibly be prime minister, he stated: “It may positively occur now, yeah, as a result of the previous system’s simply so utterly damaged.
“If he does what I’m suggesting, and actually sets out a path for how Reform is going to change, how Reform is going to bring in people, how it’s structurally going to alter, what it’s going to build, how it is going to do policy, how it can recruit MPs, etc.
“If he does that, then there will be an enormous surge of curiosity and assist into the entire thing.”
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Dominic Cummings talking to Sky’s Liz Bates
‘One man and an iPhone’
He added: “Reform has been a one-man band. It’s been Nigel and an iPhone.
“They will win 50, 100, 150 seats with Reform as Nigel and an iPhone.
“But they can’t win an overall general election and have a plan for government and have a serious team able to take over in Downing Street and govern and control Whitehall with one man and an iPhone.”
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Nevertheless, Mr Cummings was additionally scathing about Mr Farage’s private attraction, saying it was his social gathering, not him, that had change into an outlet for anti-establishment feeling.
“It’s not exactly correlated with what people think about Nigel himself.
“Reform is a automobile for individuals to say: ‘We despise you, Westminster. We hate each the previous events, we hate Whitehall, we hate the previous media, we hate the entire f***ing lot of you.’
“And Farage going up in the polls is the expression of that core feeling.”
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Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, pictured in Downing Avenue in 2019. Pic: PA
Badenoch ‘in all probability going to go this yr’
The ex-Downing Avenue aide was additionally damning concerning the Conservative Social gathering, declaring it could be “dead”.
“It’s quite possible the Tories have just, kind of, crossed the event horizon and actually aren’t salvageable,” he stated.
“Like, everyone sort of assumes that because they’ve always been around, then somehow there must be at least one last chance for them to turn things around, but it’s possible that chance is in their past and doesn’t exist.
“It could be lifeless.”
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Kemi Badenoch solely took over as Tory chief late final yr. Pic: PA
He additionally predicted the social gathering’s present chief, Kemi Badenoch, could be ousted earlier than the tip of the yr and claimed plots to take away her are already underneath approach.
“Kemi is going to go probably this year,” he stated.
“There’s already people who are organising to get rid of her, and I think that that will work. If it doesn’t work this year, it will definitely happen after next May.
“She’s a goner, so there’s going to be an enormous transition there”.
