Be careful what you wish for. Danny Kruger was already looking very queasy when he sat at the back for the Reform press conference in which Nigel Farage revealed his plans for mass deportations of legal migrants. Then on Wednesday it fell to him to go on television to say that when Zia Yusuf had repeatedly said Keir Starmer was a terrorist who was plotting to kill Farage, he had actually meant something entirely different. Fair to say Danny probably isn’t living his best Reform life. It’s one thing to defect from the Tories. It’s another to be made to look a quarter-wit in the process.
Nadine Dorries, though, is another matter. She really is living the dream. Maybe it helps that she was never that bright in the first place but she is a woman of no regrets. Perfectly happy to live in the day. The past isn’t just another country, it’s a parallel universe. One where any inconsistencies and inconvenient truths are consigned to blissful oblivion. She is the unthinking woman’s unthinking woman. A danger to herself but a source of amusement to the rest of us.
