Zawahi failed to secure peerage from Badenoch before Reform UK defection, Tory sources claim – UK politics live

‘Given he was sacked for his dodgy tax affairs, this was never going to happen,’ says sourceZahawi says he accepts that the Conservatives are to blame for some of the problems facinng the country.Since leaving parliament, I have been reflecting on the successes and failures of my old party’s time in government, and I rue the timidity, even at times the weakness, with which we try to deal with the problems of the country.My analysis is that a huge culprit is the over-mighty bureaucratic inertia that now dominates and runs the country, that has taken control of swathes of the economy and, with barely a shrug of the shoulders, restricts the individual liberty of each and every one of us.So it is time for another glorious revolution to get us back to a fully sovereign parliament.Britain needs Reform.My own party, and by definition to some extent me personally, should share some