The maths aren't there.
I respect them both but Jacob and Annnuziata Rees-Mogg are simply wrong. There is no viable basis for a pre-election pact and even if the parties somehow agreed one, a significant number of target voters in both camps would not play ball.
The right is realigning across Europe and Reform just has to go all in on its strategy to win under First Past the Post at the next election.
Our political culture is simply too adversarial - too majoritarian-keyed - to expect centre right and right of centre voters en masse to accept the case for tactical voting.
And Reform exists and has thrived to date by positioning itself as the political antidote to the Wetness of the Conservative Party, the broader Uniparty operating culture, and the decline of Britain.
A Tory-Reform pact would be bad for both parties, too many Tories don’t like Reform and for Reform it would blunt their insurgent edge.
In a tactical voting scenario almost as many Tory voters say they’d vote Labour to stop Reform as would vote Reform to stop Labour.