We posted this video before midday today, but another recording delayed me from sharing it here.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The transcript is as follows:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>How toxic do you have to be to be expelled from the Conservative Party?<\/p>\n<p>It's a question I thought would be answered in the case of Robert Jenrick because he is a toxic individual, a man who has opposed multiculturalism, who has been absolutely repugnant on issues around migration and who has been supporting people who clearly are racist in the UK, with comments he has made about communities where large numbers of people from ethnic minorities live.<\/p>\n<p>I presume that would be sufficient for them to throw him out, but no, he isn't being thrown out for that reason. Instead, he's being thrown out because there's clear evidence that he was leaving for Reform anyway, where no doubt his toxic opinions will be welcomed with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>So we haven't got an answer to the question of how toxic you have to be to be thrown out of the Conservative Party, because Robert Jenrick was not expelled for his views. He was expelled for his disloyalty, and to me, that is deeply worrying. His views should have been enough to have had him expelled from a party that once used to talk about one-nation politics. He did not promote one-nation. He promoted division, and anger, and difference, and the subjection of large numbers of people to what is plain, straightforward prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>He should have been expelled for that. He hasn't been. The Conservative Party, as a result, has shown its true colours in this episode. You can be as toxic as you like and be a Tory now. What you can't be is disloyal to the leader. That shows they're all about power without conscience, and that's why they, alongside Nigel Farage, do not deserve power in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted this video before midday today, but another recording delayed me from sharing it here. The transcript is as follows: How toxic do you<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/15\/toxic-tories\/\"><em> Read the full article…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,14,16,106,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-politics","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89202,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89201\/revisions\/89202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}