Tracy Wells

I am a fully qualified Couture Milliner based in the beautiful Lake District. I hand block and sew all my hats and every one is unique and original x

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Jenrick was runner up in the Tory Party’s 2024 leadership election. He is arguably their most effective digital age campaigner. And yet the Conservative Party and its leader Kemi Badenoch are almost certainly stronger following his expulsion for allegedly plotting to defect to Reform.

Don’t take my word for it. I have spoken to Tory MPs today from all wings and factions in the party. And there was no hint of sadness or regret at his brutal removal.

While none of them have explicitly said “good riddance,” they believe that his presence as a constant rival to Badenoch was too painful a reminder of the party’s modern history of civil war.

And they are also convinced that Badenoch’s decisiveness in expelling him reinforces her growing reputation for decisiveness and shows a defter political touch than she manifested during her first months as leader.

Her party is still somewhere between six and 10 percentage points behind Reform in the polls. And Reform is continuing to successfully woo councillors from the Tories. But its lead over the Conservatives has been on a narrowing trend in recent weeks.

Badenoch’s confidence and new ruthless streak has been visible for a while: she showed it when authorising her officials to character assassinate the former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi a few days ago, after he defected to Nigel Farage’s team.

By the way, no MP believes the reports that Badenoch found out by pure chance about his alleged treachery when one of her colleagues happened upon his draft resignation speech. “We assume one of his team ratted him out but wants protecting” said a senior Tory.

This is a return to politics as high grade soap opera.

As for Reform, it is moot whether its leadership in the polls would be reinforced or weakened by the potential high-profile recruitment.

As Michael Gove said on my show last night, with every Tory defection Reform looks less like a breath of new political air and more like an agglomeration of retreads from the last discredited government.

Farage and Reform were benefiting, in this analysis, from being the devils we didn’t know.

There is a risk that with every Tory recruit they become tainted not only by the last government’s conspicuous flaws but also its perceived addiction to skullduggery and backstabbing.

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

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@AmpikaPickston1 Of course you did xxx Congratulations 🥂

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@MI5GCJ @HSCumbria2025 Fabulous x Congratulations x

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Watch an Australian leader describe present day United States.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Isabel Oakeshott who spent years complaining of immigrants coming to the UK and not speaking English

Has moved to Dubai, where she's an immigrant, and doesn't speak Arabic 🤷‍♂️

[Royal British Legion @PoppyLegion]

Congratulations to WW2 veteran Havildar-Major Rajinder Singh Dhatt on receiving an MBE this week, a remarkable and well-deserved honour.

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@liamlibdem My husband at the time, no ex husband voted for Bexit!!! #finalstraw

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@GraemePeacock1 @TaraVallente @northumbriapol Nice 😊

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Matt Forde: Boris Johnson broke the law & I think that's different to getting a jacket.

Tim Stanley(Telegraph): Fair enough.

#PoliticsLive

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@dralisonj Oooh no!!

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

Things the Tories have sold off to line their own pockets in the last 10yrs!!!

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Just a tiny number of the things we owned and the recent Tories sold off

If I went back to 1980 and gave you the full list you’d feel sick about it

None of us gained a thing except the super rich

Inequality through the roof.

#UKRiots

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@mrjamesob ???? Indeed!!

[Ieuan Rhys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @Ieu61]

#FarageRiots #UKRiots
Saw this on TikTok 👏👏👏

[James Lewis @chimpiemunki]

Punks cleaning up the far right mess #Blackpool #rebellionfestival

[Tracy Wells @WellsTracy]

@TempletonPeckJr @RobertJenrick @Telegraph They would have been reelected then!