Reform UK's Sarah Pochin calls for a 'coming together' between Right-wing parties as she says voters can't be let down by 'squabbles'

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 10:30 EDT, 4 September 2026 | Updated: 11:04 EDT, 4 September 2026 Reform UK's Sarah Pochin today called for a 'coming together' between Right-wing parties ahead of the next general election.The party's first female MP warned that Right-wing voters should not be let down by 'squabbles' between rival outfits, who must be able to look at the 'bigger picture'.She urged her fellow politicians to 'rise above' personal attacks on each other as they try to prevent Labour retaining power the next time the country goes to the polls.Ms Pochin told an event at Reform's conference in Birmingham that she would 'feel devastated if the Right destroys itself'.She made the comments despite Reform leader Nigel Farage and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch having both repeatedly ruled out an electoral pact between their parties.There has also been a dampening of expectations over a proposed deal between Reform and Restore Britain - the rival Right-wing outfit set up by Rupert Lowe.Speaking during a live recording of the Daily T podcast on Friday, Ms Pochin said: 'The most important thing is that the parties on the Right do not allow the Left to come through again and for us to have to suffer another general election where Labour might succeed. Reform UK's Sarah Pochin today called for a 'coming together' between Right-wing parties ahead of the next general election She made the comments despite Reform leader Nigel Farage and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch having both repeatedly ruled out an electoral pact between their parties'How that happens is going to take some negotiation, but I would feel devastated if the Right destroys itself.'We cannot let Right-wing voters down by squabbles. We need to be able to look at the bigger picture if we're going to save this country and put it back on a trajectory which I think most of us in this room desire.'There needs to be some coming together on the Right.'Asked about the exchange of political attacks between Reform and the Tories over recent months, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby added: 'I actually don't go in at all for all of this personal attack stuff. I don't do Twitter.'I don't like it, I'm obviously a victim of it at times, but I don't do it myself. I think we have such big issues to deal with. I feel a huge sense of responsibility.'She continued: 'I think we need to rise above all of this tittle tattle and think about the huge mission that we are on. That needs to be the driving force. Not all of this nonsense.'Can I just say one thing - and I do apologise to all of the men in this room - there's a big difference between men and women because women don't really have these big egos. We get on with the job.'Mr Farage last month said he was 'open-minded' about holding talks with Mr Lowe following the Restore leader's surprise offer to 'unite the Right' and take on Labour.Mr Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, was initially elected to Parliament as a Reform representative at the 2024 general election.But he left Reform last year amid a furious row with Mr Farage and other senior Reform figures.Reform insiders have since downplayed the chances of a deal being struck between Mr Farage and Mr Lowe, after Mr Lowe refused to sack his party's controversial top aide Charlie Downes.The rising popularity of Restore Britain has sparked concern among some within Reform that it is eating into support for Mr Farage's party.And Ms Pochin said that Mr Lowe 'needs to think very seriously about the damage he is potentially doing to the Reform vote'.'We are basically in the same direction aren't we, we're talking to the same people,' she added.Nadine Dorries, the former Tory Cabinet minister who defected to Reform last year, also said there was a need for the 'Right to unite' as she appeared on the same podcast.But her and Ms Pochin's pleas for unity came after Reform's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said the party should seek to destroy the Tories rather than make a deal with them.Mr Yusuf used his conference speech to launch an attack on the Conservatives over their time in power, telling Reform members: 'We are not here to do a deal with con-artist Kemi, we are here to put the Tories out of business.'