Four in 10 Tory members back Reform UK merger

A new poll shows that 40% of Tory members would back a merger of the Conservative Party with Reform UK. 
 
When asked whether Nigel Farage’s party should merge with the Tories a total of 42 per cent of Conservative members were in support of it. 
 
The poll by YouGov showed that respondents opposed a merger of the two even more than the Tories, 51 per cent of them. 
 
Tory strategists observed a tendency of shift of support to Reform at the general election, 25% of whom were Tory supporters in 2019, as per YouGov. 
 
For the Tories, exactly fifty per cent of them believed that amalgamation would help them to get the next election. 
 
The division about the problem shows two divergent visions on what the future of the Conservative Party will look like as the leadership race is going to commence next week. 
 
YouGov also showed that 51 per cent of the members wants the next leader of the Conservatives to shift the party to the Right. Only 12 per cent of the respondents responded that the party should not shift at all, and only 34 percent said the next leader should shift to the center. 
 
Apart from attending the conference, six aspirants are already in the race for leadership of the Tory and out of them, Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and James Cleverly have categorically rejected any idea of merging with Reform. 
 
Last month, the shadow home secretary, Mr Cleverly, asserts that the party “doesn’t do mergers”. At the same time, Robert Jenrick has stated that the Tories should ‘put Farage on the shelf’ and ‘deselect’ Reform UK. 
 
Mr Farage, the MP for Clacton, said in June that he would be willing to lead a merged Reform-Conservative party, telling LBC: Regarding centre-right Europe, I rather believe that something new is going to appear there, though I do not know what it is going to be called. 
 
But do I think, I am capable of leading a national opposition to a Labour Party with a big majority where I can stand up and hold them accountable for their actions, decisions vis-a-vis issues? Oh yes. 
 
Reform, which argued for such measures as limitation on immigration, etc, got only 14 percent of the vote but turns only five Members of Parliament to the Commons. 
 
Told in a survey of 910 Tory members some policies include leaving the European Convention of Human Rights with 68 per cent support. Tom Tugendhat and Mr Jenrick have suggested that they would be willing to walk away from the convention if this was going to compromise the nation’s capacity to address migration. 
 
Over a half (56%) of the voter want Rwanda plan to be brought back, and 57% of the voters are in support of suspension of all migration to the UK for the next five years. 
 
The following policy ideas were most preferred by the grassroots; construction more hospitals and under 18s are not allowed to fulfill their gender transitions 86 per cent.