Well, that didn’t take long. Despite much talk of professionalisation, Nigel Farage’s latest political outfit is following the pattern of the parties that came before: infighting. On Friday night, the Reform party stripped one of its five MPs, Rupert Lowe, of the whip after referring him to the police. Lowe stands accused of workplace bullying and threatening behaviour towards party chair Zia Yusuf. In turn, the MP for Great Yarmouth denies all the claims and accused Farage and his allies of embarking on a ‘vindictive witch hunt’. Three days on and there is little sign of the row dying down with more accusations over the weekend – including that Lowe had annoyed colleagues by going too far in his calls for mass deportations.
As James and I reported
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