Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform UK, and that move has blown a hole clean through the party’s anti-elite pitch. Right, so Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform UK, and this isn’t a one-off, it’s the system doing what it always does when one brand collapses and another looks useful, when one gravy train starts running out of juice and another offers plenty. A former Conservative chancellor, dumped after a tax scandal and apparently sulking after having been blocked from a peerage, has walked straight into a party that claims to exist to smash elite entitlement, which is a laugh when it is led by the MP coining the most in by way of second jobbing and with the likes of Dubai Dickie Tice making the same tired old migration excuses, whilst literally being one himself. The cost ought to be immediate and would be if the media did its job, because Re ...