On the face of it, the clash at the top of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is a battle of egos. When Rupert Lowe, the MP touted by Elon Musk as a potential Reform leader, had the temerity to criticise Farage in an interview, the party’s machinery quickly moved against him.
Lowe complained to the Daily Mail last week that Reform remained a “protest party led by the Messiah” and that it was “too early to know whether Nigel will deliver the goods” by winning power.
