In a more even-tempered encounter with the media than usual, Nigel Farage managed to get through the launch of perhaps his party’s most radical proposal yet without too much incident – or, indeed, detail.
Despite the production of a tendentiously titled pamphlet (Prioritising UK Citizens), there was little sign that Farage and his Reform UK colleague Zia Yusuf had entirely thought through the likely consequences of the central proposal of their immigration strategy: to abolish the status of “indefinite leave to remain” (ILR).