Reform’s best bet could be in Wales
The great schism on the right of British politics was aptly displayed last week. On Wednesday night, as the Prime Minister attended a ‘pretty downbeat’ drinks reception at the Carlton Club, across town the real action was happening at the Boisdale restaurant in Canary Wharf. Some 300-odd journalists, MPs and donors flocked there to pay tribute to Nigel Farage on his 60th birthday, in an occasion that was somewhere between a reunion and a rally. Much of the talk was about the forthcoming general election, with Farage himself teasing a return as leader of Reform UK. Taking to the stage in his blue velvet double-breasted jacket, he declared ‘This seems