What Next for Reform UK?

Well, isn’t it a glorious mess? Reform UK, that band of Brexit zealots and populist muckrakers, has picked the perfect moment to start clawing its own eyes out. Just as the spotlight begged for their next act, Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe – two men who’ve made careers out of thumbing their noses at the great and good – have locked horns in a row that’s pure Jacobean drama: pride, treachery and a faint stench of fate gone off the rails. Dig beneath the tabloid froth, though, and you’ll spy parallel lives that make this bust-up less than a shock. With Labour and the Tories already twitching ahead of May’s local elections and the Runcorn by-election, Reform’s implosion could either torch their rivals’ hopes or leave them laughing over the ashes.