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i find this very revealing. By almost any measure - including cosying up to Tommy Robinson; indulging conspiracy theories about the Jews; worrying about the number of Brits with a different skin colour; online nastiness - esp to women and journalists - Restore's members and activists are much more likely to cross the lines of civility and mutual respect that Kemi promised to defend. Her words at her party's conference were very powerful but the evasive, 'look-over-there' answer she gave today to @CamillaTominey's probing was awful. She gives Rupert Lowe's party a free pass even though - as Camilla has herself tenatiously pointed out on her DailyT pod - it is well outside the mainstream of politics. Lowe has been ever since Farage refused Elon Musk's encouragement to make Reform more like Germany's AFD (rather than say Meloni's Italian and less sectarian brand of populism). Lowe, in contrast, dances to any Musk tune. Kemi says nothing about the ugliness of Restore. In fact she indulges them. We know about some of those indulgences. Rumours swirl about others. All while she only ever paints Reform as beyond the pale. Were her words at party conference real? i still hope so. I havenn't liked some of what Reform has recently allowed to breathe within its ranks. But her words would mean nothing if simultaneously she continue to play footsie with Restore and Rupert Lowe. All part of seeing politics as just a game, where winning is the only thing that REALLY matters. And winning rather than governing and tactics over strategy ended up with those fourteen years of disastrous Tory misrule. Are the Tories under new management or still the same animal?. "Nothing has changed," said one of the many recent Tory PMs. And in this context those words seem too close to the truth.