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When Nigel Farage accepted the Spectator鈥檚 Newcomer of the Year Award, he suggested that his Reform UK party could get hundreds more MPs at the next election. In this week鈥檚 episode Amol and Nick discuss whether that鈥檚 possible with 麻豆社 political editor Chris Mason and Tim Montgomerie, who founded the Conservative Home website, but recently left the Tory Party to join Reform UK.

He explains why he decided to defect, how his friends in the Conservative Party have reacted and what he thinks can be learned from Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election.

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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of 麻豆社 Radio 4鈥檚 Today programme. Amol was the 麻豆社鈥檚 media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he鈥檚 also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the 麻豆社鈥檚 political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV鈥檚 political editor.

This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Nadia Gyane and Molly Higgins. Digital production was by Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.