Britain's political establishment is bracing for potential confrontation with Nigel Farage, with claims that senior officials may resort to ethically questionable tactics to prevent him from reaching Number 10.
The warning comes from Dominic Cummings, the architect of the Brexit victory and former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, who has publicly alleged that Whitehall insiders and allies of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are preparing an aggressive 'dirty tricks' campaign. Such claims, if true, would represent an illustration of how far the establishment might go to neutralise a political threat it views with genuine alarm.
