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Marina Hyde

The Nigel Farage v Rupert Lowe prize fight is getting ugly. Has Reform reached its breaking point?

Happier times: Lee Anderson,  Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Richard Tice and James McMurdock arrive at Westminster, 9 July 2024.
Happier times: Lee Anderson, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Richard Tice and James McMurdock arrive at Westminster, 9 July 2024. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

How soon before one of Reform’s MPs starts touting himself as the reform Reform candidate? A negative amount of time, it seems, with Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe already relieved of the whip for saying that Reform is currently “a protest party led by the Messiah”. Yep: Jesus Christ Superkings.

Anyway, Nigel Farage has taken all this as well as you might expect. In terms of what’s happened since, with even Nigel judging that “things have got a little bit out of control”, I’m finding it quite hard to immerse myself fully in every angle. Mainly because I’m worried it’s going to be one of those stories that demeans men – and I’m a passionate supporter of their involvement in politics, whatever people are saying about DEI nowadays.

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