Nigel Farage, just back from America where he attended Donald Trump’s underwhelming celebrations of the US’s 250th anniversary of independence, is clearly following the president’s playbook. When asked awkward questions, you deflect, divert, distract and cry foul.
The Reform UK leader’s announcement that he will resign as an MP and force a by-election in his Clacton constituency, in which he will stand as a candidate, is a diversionary tactic in response to legitimate questions about his finances.
