‘Threatening Bully’: Richard Tice’s Warning to Deputy Tory Chair Over Mail On Sunday Article Shakes Tory Ranks

Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice speaks at a press conference. (Photo by Tejas Sandhu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Reform UK leader and GB News host Richard Tice warned newly-appointed Tory Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis that he should “pipe down” with his critique on the party given the “embarrassing personal information” they had on him.

The Easter weekend war of words began with Gullis’ comments in a Mail on Sunday article spotlighting some of Reform UK’s political candidates. The article claimed that “the potential MPs include a convicted animal abuser and a fortune-teller who sold spells for £200 on the pornography-dominated site OnlyFans.”

Gullis, quoted in the piece, said: “We can only assume this cast of characters passed Mr Tice’s muster. We are clearly not just talking about a ‘few rotten eggs’ here.”

He added: “If you are promoting candidates banned from looking after dogs, how can you honestly say they are capable of looking after the interests of their candidates?”

Tice blasted the article as a “Tory hatchet job” and ripped the newspaper as the “Tory Party’s lapdog newspaper” – accusing the Mail On Sunday of overlooking the behaviour of the Conservative Party’s own MPs.

In a retort directed at Gullis, Tice issued a warning that his party held compromising and “embarrassing personal information” on the deputy chair and that he should “pipe down” in his “attacks” on the party.

Gullis, so far, has not responded to the tweet but users were alarmed by the open threat of “blackmail.”

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In response, Richard Holden, who is chair of the Conservative Party, posted: “What a threatening bully Richard Tice is exposing himself to be. Silly man.”

The hostilities between the parties continued to grow after several Conservative politicians defected to Reform UK. The party, borne out of GB News host Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, is seeking to draw voters pitched to the right of the Tory party with a focus on what it describes as “common sense policies on immigration” and “national sovereignty.”