Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football
Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?Thu 30 Jul 2026 10.58 EDTLast modified on Thu 30 Jul 2026 11.00 EDTShareWhen you’ve lost the trust of GB News, when you’re too deranged, too extreme and too outright mendacious for your biggest fan, then you know you are in trouble. You can almost sense the panic beginning to set in at Reform HQ.No longer topping the opinion polls. A new prime minister resetting the dial, the public increasingly choosing optimism over grievance.
- ▪Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?Thu 30 Jul 2026 10.58 EDTLast modified on Thu 30 Jul 2026 11.00 EDTShareWhen you’ve lost the trust of GB News, when you’re too deranged, too extreme and too outright mendacious for your biggest fa
- ▪You can almost sense the panic beginning to set in at Reform HQ.No longer topping the opinion polls.
- ▪A new prime minister resetting the dial, the public increasingly choosing optimism over grievance.
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‘Few other media organisations could be bothered to engage with the half-arsed grandstanding.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPAView image in fullscreen‘Few other media organisations could be bothered to engage with the half-arsed grandstanding.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPAThe politics sketchReform UKEven GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political footballJohn CraceHonest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?Thu 30 Jul 2026 10.58 EDTLast modified on Thu 30 Jul 2026 11.00 EDTShareWhen you’ve lost the trust of GB News, when you’re too deranged, too extreme and too outright mendacious for your biggest fan, then you know you are in trouble.
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