Anderson's defection neatly embodies a right that is long on anger but short on answers | Conservative Home

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : That was simple to communicate and had broad appeal, as leaving the EU could mean many things to many people.
53% : UKIP had many, but really it had one central ask: a referendum on the EU.
50% : Reform has no such tentpole demand, which both limits its scope for shaping government policy and makes it more important that its actual proposals (a mix of Thatcherite economics and self-serving Lib Dem-style constitutional reform) are well out of step with the left-on-economics, right-on-culture quadrant that is the big gap in British politics.
47% : Then, as now, there was mounting dissatisfaction on the right with the direction of the Conservative(-led) government; their by-election victories in Clacton and Rochester & Strood helped to heap pressure on David Cameron and eventually make the fateful decision to promise a referendum on the EU.

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