Returning Cleverly hits out at ‘one-man band’ Reform

Sir James Cleverly has branded Nigel Farage’s Reform UK a “one-man band” and warned voters that the party is nowhere near ready to govern.

- JABED AHMED

The former foreign and home secretary, who this week returned to the shadow cabinet, complimented Mr Farage as “funny”. “interesting” and “a very good communicator”. However, Sir James said Reform UK falls short of credibility.

“The challenge he’s got is that he’s the only one in his party that you can describe in those terms,” Sir James told The Times. “If you're going to be taken seriously as a party of government, that’s nowhere near enough. As much as he’s smart and funny and talented, he’s not omnipresent.”