Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Rishi Sunak to strike a general election pact with Reform UK and offer senior figures like Nigel Farage and Richard Tice the chance to be Tory candidates. 

The former business secretary said the Prime Minister should make a “big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform” to join the Tories. 

He said Mr Sunak should offer “candidate selection to senior members of the Reform Party such as the estimable Ben Habib, Richard Tice and of course, the one and only Nigel Farage”. 

Sir Jacob argued that uniting the Right of British politics would put victory at the next election “within reach”. 

He told GB News: “With the help of Nigel Farage in a Conservative government, as a Conservative minister, with Boris Johnson probably returning as foreign secretary and welcoming the likes of Ben Habib and Richard Tice into our party, as well as pursuing genuinely conservative policies, winning the next election suddenly becomes within reach.”

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