Conservatives face ‘existential crisis’ as Farage ‘accelerates’ Reform support | Kwasi Kwarteng

“Farage coming out with what he said last week in terms of standing for a seat, that has accelerated their support and that's what's turned this into an existential crisis for the Conservatives.”

Kwasi Kwarteng, former chancellor under Liz Truss, accepts he is "partially responsible" for the state of the Conservative Party, but tells Andrew Neil that so are "all the leadership of the party in the last five years" as well as Nigel Farage's campaigning for Reform UK.

[DJWHITE_]

Kwasi, Truss, Rishi, Johnson, Raab, Patel, Mogg, Gove, Hunt, Shapps, Mancock, Fabricant, Braverman, Badenock, Swayne, Gullis, 30p, Frank Spencer, Philps, Jenrick are all reasons why they should never been listened to Ever again.

[BennyTheBall]

The tories have a very arrogant streak running through them, Kwarteng included

[Will]

Possibly shutting the entire economy down for two years, and calling for those who wouldn’t accept the jab to be punished, had SOME effect ?

[JohnShaw-zmpc]

Conservatives out. Vote out to help out. 😅😅😅

[pastyman]

Kwasi Kwarteng and Truss deliberately avoided their budget being scrutinised by OBR or Treasury. You have scrutiny for a reason. They are experts who know stuff and would have shot the budget down in flames before it was attempted. They would have been right. Kwasi was seen laughing with financial traders before the budget who said go for it. They probably short sold / bet on the pound falling and made big money.

[chrislaurenceleo]

These politians never take responsibilities for their own calamitous actions.

[kenjimrankin]

Sunak would not have the decency to resign over the D Day snub to the people of Britain, Sunak is a total embarrassment, he lost the respect of the people of U. k and he never, never get it back, I hope he does not resign, because his staying will assist the demise of the Tory party. And they deserve nothing else.

[martinhill]

It feels like they have deliberately sunk the ship.

[orchidhouse]

The arrogance of the Kwarteng/Truss period when they were so convinced they had the best plan and refused any scrutiny was so damaging. They did not know best. Nor does Sunak with his arrogant attitudes. A party on the edge of fail was pushed over the edge by these three. Kwasi Kwarteng should resign over the mess he left us with.

[frankskinner]

This will be an example to all politicians - if you lie to the British public, you will not be elected.

[Nigel_Barrage]

Why bother asking for Kwasi's opinion. The guy is a total disaster

[MrAdamGrainger]

Andrew Neil dedicated to getting the term ‘Cluster-Truss’ over 😂

[alistairrobinson]

No defense for truss / kwartang but Sunak had a decent chance to improve things and has been utterly hideous, total failure

[DC.]

Out of touch, hasn’t learnt anything from the mistakes he made.

[grunt]

A pity King Herod has passed away or they could interview him for childcare tips!!

[normasarsby]

Dear god, ! When Kwasi is the voice of reason for the Tories, then you the train is completely derailed. We are all doomed.

[livelife]

I don’t know how Kwasi has the nerve to show his face. He’s got no shame. The most incompetent chancellor ever.

[jstoner]

Just a couple of Tory boys who don’t get it and after 15 years have just smelt the coffee.

[JevansUK]

Tories completely miss that their culture wars have fueled the rise of reform uk because they couldn't out crazy the nutters

[Unanimous]

Kwasi Kwarteng is an absolute lunatic, any first year economics student could've told him that his plan was deranged