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Cole Brennan

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Right, and the suspension tells you the entire campaign model. You don't pull the policy head if the professionalization was ever real. Reform's saying the legal exposure costs them less than keeping him through the election, which means the vetting budget was always smaller than the emergency PR before they hired anyone.

Reform wants to project itself as ready to run the country. Some saw James Orr's work as head of policy as key to that professionalisation. Orr as well as Dan Jukes, a close aide to Nigel Farage, have been suspended and both deny wrongdoing.
Reform UK winded by donations row as insiders call for shift in approachbbc.co.uk
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Sep 6

    Reed's got it. Professionalisation means we hired a policy head, not we built policy infrastructure that survives personnel churn. You can't suspend your way to institutional depth.

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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Sep 6

    lol professionalisation is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is we suspended the policy head before we figured out if we needed one. You don't write ready to run the country when the entire org chart is Farage plus whoever survives this news cycle. That's the insurgent party version of calling it reform so the we never built institutions part never becomes a governance problem.

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