As every parent knows, there is nothing more infuriating than watching your children arguing. My two – chalk and cheese – do it all the time and it drives me round the bend.Life’s hard enough, so I tell them, stop tearing chunks out of each other. You might not agree on everything but, at the end of the day, you’re basically on the same side. Or at least you ought to be.I felt the same last week watching Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch slagging each other off in the Press.Politically, they are undoubtedly family. Sure, they have different ideas and different policies but, essentially, they’re on the same side, which is to say the opposite side of Labour and the Greens.They also have a common enemy in Restore Britain, who under the leadership of Rupert Lowe increasingly seems to be encroaching on Reform territory.In this week’s Makerfield by-election, Restore could well dilute the vote and hand victory to Andy Burnham, in much the same way that at the last general election Reform split the Tory vote and gave us Keir Starmer.This is deeply worrying, not least because unlike Reform – which has worked hard to stay well away from the likes of Tommy Robinson by implementing strict vetting procedures and expelling anyone with links to organisations such as the BNP – Restore Britain has some deeply worrying affiliations.As The Mail on Sunday reports today, Steve Laws, Lucy White and Callum Barker, three far-Right activists who have pledged their support for the party, were all present at a so-called ‘Remigration Summit’ in Porto, Portugal on May 30, alongside some of Europe’s most prominent white supremacists. They are unfit for office. Badenoch is conscientious, details-driven and gives off strong head girl vibes... ...and Farage is the bad boy hanging out behind the bike sheds, sucking on a Lambert & Butler and running some sort of dodgy sweepstake, writes Sarah Vine Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain is increasingly encroaching on both Reform's and the Tories' votershipIt is another reason why Badenoch and Farage should consider joining forces, if not officially then at least behind the scenes.The traditional Right of British politics – which is where most of the electorate naturally sit – is not just divided, it is increasingly atomised. And we all know the saying: together we stand, divided we fall.Yet when anyone suggests some sort of alliance, both leaders throw their toys out of the pram. It makes me want to bang their heads together.I get it. Individually, they are superstars. Badenoch, whom I have always championed, is a fiercely intelligent, articulate woman with, among other talents, a brilliant sense of humour and a sound moral compass. There is no doubt that she has made her mark on British politics in challenging circumstances and in a way few thought possible.Farage I don’t know nearly so well – in fact, hardly at all. I’ve only met him a few times and found him egotistical and dismissive. Maybe he was having a bad day, or just found me annoying (many do). Nevertheless, he is tenacious and determined, and his ability to speak as he finds clearly resonates with many ordinary voters who are sick and tired of old Establishment politicians.Personality wise, just like my two children, they are chalk and cheese. Badenoch is conscientious, details-driven and gives off strong head girl vibes; Farage is the bad boy hanging out behind the bike sheds, sucking on a Lambert & Butler.But the truth is, if they could only put their egos to one side for a minute and find a way to join forces, they would be like Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta: greased lightning.I’m not suggesting Badenoch put on a pair of Spandex leggings, or that Farage becomes teacher’s pet (although he could try turning up to Parliament a bit more) but for the love of God, can’t the pair see what everyone else can see?They are the yin and yang of conservative (small c) politics. If only they could find a way of overcoming their differences, they would be unstoppable.I understand why they each want to succeed in their own right. Farage has been fighting his corner for decades, belittled by the Establishment, characterised as a bigot by his enemies and generally shunned as an outsider – as his biographer Lord Ashcroft explores in today’s paper.Now that his party has the backing of so many voters, it’s natural for him to aspire to the top job.But while he may be hugely popular, he has no experience in power. He has little or no understanding of the workings of Westminster and, however much one might consider the machinery of government creaky and outdated, any future prime minister needs to be in control of it, or they will get nothing done.Farage’s strengths as an outsider would be his weaknesses in government. He remains essentially a single-issue politician. That is fine when you’re campaigning but it doesn’t necessarily follow that it qualifies you to run a whole country, which, as we have seen time and again, is really not as easy as people seem to think.As for Badenoch, she is on a mission to rehabilitate the Conservatives after years of perceived failures – and she is determined to do so on her own terms. I have huge respect for this.While she herself is hugely popular with the public, and rightly so given her recent barnstorming performances, she faces an uphill struggle erasing the mistakes of previous Tory administrations. The brand is just very badly tarnished and you can’t sell voters something they’re simply not ready to buy.Given enough time, I am certain she would succeed. But at the rate at which this current administration is collapsing, she may not have that luxury.I’m not the only one who is calling for an olive branch.Yesterday, a new survey of Reform voters showed that 90 per cent of them believe Farage ‘should form a coalition or do a deal with the Conservatives’ in the event of a hung parliament.It’s the strongest message yet that the Right-leaning public want a pragmatic approach to ensuring that divisions between Reform and Conservatives do not result in a win for Labour or the Greens.The centre-Right is more circumspect. Internal polling for the Tories shows that a quarter of Lib-Dem voters are potentially pivoting towards the party; but would they be reliable enough at a general election?The truth is every disgruntled centre-Right voter I speak to broadly says the same thing: the sensible Right of British politics needs to grow up, set aside its differences and unite for the greater good.That may not be what either leader wants to hear but I’m afraid it’s the bald truth: in the current political climate, Badenoch and Farage would achieve more together than they ever will apart.Even if neither is ready to have that conversation, perhaps they could at least stop tearing at each other’s throats.