Making plans for Nigel: could Farage return to the Tories?

Brexiteer has been linked with party leadership after creating a 'buzz' at conference

Nigel Farage with a cigarette
Farage told reporters he had 'achieved a lot more outside of the Tory party than I ever could have done from within it'
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Nigel Farage would be welcome to return to the Conservative Party, signalled Rishi Sunak after the former Ukip leader attended the Tory conference.

Asked by GB News whether he would accept Farage back into the Conservative fold, the PM said the party is "a very broad church", adding that he welcomes "lots of people who want to subscribe to our values".

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.