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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Nige doubling up, Dicky in No 11 and 30p Lee at foreign? Run for the hills!

Nigel Farage, centre, with Lee Anderson, left, and Richard Tice, far right, outside parliament on the first day of the new parliament on 9 July 2024
Who will be drafted into a new cabinet if Nige wins in 2029? Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

With two opinion polls giving the Reform party a clear lead over Labour and the Conservatives, it may be time to start thinking about some practicalities. Like, just who will be doing what job in a Reform-led government?

It can probably be taken it as read that Nigel Farage will be prime minister, but that leaves three MPs – make that two, as James McMurdock isn’t trusted enough by his colleagues to be allowed out in public – to fill the remaining 20-plus cabinet posts. Unless we take it that two dozen or so newly elected MPs with no experience of anything will be drafted in by Nige after the 2029 election. Run for the hills, everyone.

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