
Nigel Farage rejects suggestions he could make Tory party return
The IndependentSign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Sunak added to GB News: “I welcome lots of people who want to subscribe to our ideals, to our values.” But former Ukip leader Mr Farage replied “no, no, no” to the suggestion while Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands also said he would not welcome it. If he wanted to join I can’t think his membership would be refused.” We're always delighted if people cross the floor Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg But Mr Hands told the same programme: “I think he’s been most recently advocating voting for another political party. “I think he said he doesn’t want to see the Conservative Party succeed so I don’t think I would.” Sir Jacob countered: “We’re always delighted if people cross the floor.” Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson, speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester hosted by Conservative Home and UK in a Changing Europe, and asked if he agreed Mr Farage would win a Tory leadership race if allowed to stand, said: “No. I don’t.” He said he was friends with Mr Farage and he is a “decent man” who has “done wonders for politics in this country” and does a good job scrutinising the Government, adding: “But at the end of the day Nigel has stood many, many times for Parliament and has not won.” “I think Nigel is much more effective doing what he’s doing,” Mr Anderson said, adding: “For me, if he joined the party I’d shake his hand and welcome him, but I don’t think he will.”
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