Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot
- Posted on October 4, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot

They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about Starmer, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins