Also if you're Reform-minded, Farage is more charismatic than Jenrick or Badenoch, so potentially Tories could see the drop off in the centre without any recovery from Reform ...
Hypothesis: some Cleverly backers assuming their man was safe and switching to their preferred opponent?
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say
Yes, the offshore-linked donations to Labour and Jenrick recently are dodgy - and IMO the rules need tightening around that. I can't see a case for state funding (beyond short money) as if parties can't fundraise from a wide enough pool they have no right to exist.
But the controversy over donations hasn't been about core election funding, it's been over freebies for politicians. But if political parties can't fundraise from a wide pool of people, they shouldn't get life support from the state.
And how many other Conservatives thought this, but didn't have the guts to speak out against it? And, to be fair, why didn't the Labour leadership attack it on this moral level too?
Please tell us there were (more?!) questions about Grenfell, winter fuel payments, and Channel deaths?
It's the stated aim of the party he leads, Likud - in their 1977 constitution.
Netanyahu's stated aim is the destruction of Palestine. And he's enacting it.