Tice Reformed
Nigel Farage’s latest attempt to break his general election duck – seven innings without troubling the scorers – was the week’s big moment. Thoughts please for the now former Reform leader Richard Tice, who handed Farage the party reins after almost single-handedly fronting, funding and running it right up to the moment that anyone actually cared. Not since the tribulations of Wallace and Gromit has a bafflingly devoted sidekick been so mistreated by a nationally renowned oddball. But Gromit had the excuse of being both a dog and a fictional character – neither of which Tice can realistically fall back on.
